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Texas Reading Club Manual 41
Characters
2 TV sports anchors
Pat, a field reporter
Referee/Librarian
2 Super Readers
Several children to be the crowd
The Reader’s Cup
(By Kippy Edge.)
Although reader’s theater does not usually include props and costumes, the simple items
suggested here can be used to enhance the program. If you want to really get creative, add cue
card holders, cameramen and other things that make the scene look like a real sports broadcast.
Props (optional)
2 Chairs
1 Desk
2 Books
2 Bean bag chairs (or cushions that readers can sit on)
Fake microphones and headsets (anything to make it seem like a sports broadcast)
1 Yellow handkerchief
1 Whistle
Costumes (optional)
Jackets and clip-on ties for the reporters
Referee shirt
SPORTS ANCHOR 1: We are here today at the _______________Public Library to watch two
amazing readers square off in competition.
SPORTS ANCHOR 2: This is very exciting. I’m sure that you can hear the crowd in the
background as they cheer for two champion readers.
(Two children enter and start looking for books.)
CROWD: Yay! (clapping and making noise)
REFEREE/LIBRARIAN: Shhh!
SPORTS ANCHOR 1: Yes, Shhh, indeed! This is a library, after all. But back to our readers;
they appear to be checking out books from our . . . . I can’t quite tell what section they are
getting books from. Is that fiction or non-fiction?
SPORTS ANCHOR 2: I can’t tell either. Let’s ask our field reporter. Pat, can you hear me down
there?