Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured

Have you heard "Don't Kiss Sleeping Beauty, She's Got Really Bad Breath" or "The Ugly Duckling Sues His Parents for Bad Genes"? This resource offers more than 20 reproducible satirical scripts for rip-roaring dramatics. Fredericks's side-splitting send-ups are guaranteed to get everyone involved.

ANTHONY D. FREDERICKS is Professor of Education, York College, York, Pennsylvania, and the author of more than 50 teacher resource books as well as 20 award-winning children's books.

Acknowledgments

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A Bunch of Superfluous Words I Found Lying Around My Desk (a.k.a. the Preface)

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Part I READERS THEATRE BEFORE FROGS

Some Important Stuff Before the Really Good Stuff (a.k.a. the Introduction)

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``Once Upon a Time''

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What Is Readers Theatre?

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What Is the Value of Readers Theatre?

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How to Present Readers Theatre

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How to Create Your Own Readers Theatre

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Yes, We Even Have a Section on Evaluation!

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References

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Part II ALL THE REALLY WEIRD AND WACKY STORIES YOU BOUGHT THIS BOOK FOR

Once Upon A

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Little Miss Muffet Smashes the Spider to Smithereens

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Coughy, the Dwarf Snow White Never Told You About

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Beauty and This Incredibly Ugly Guy

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The Really, Really, Really True Story of the Three Little Pigs

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The Brussels Sprouts Man (The Gingerbread Man's Unbelievably Strange Cousin)

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The Big---Wolf and the Day He Forgot His Middle Name

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Hansel and Gretel Make a Really Big Mistake with Their New Friend from Another Story

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Don't Kiss Sleeping Beauty, She's Got Really Bad Breath

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The Incredibly Stupid Princess Who Wants to Put Lots of Vegetables Under Her Mattresses

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Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf Have a Friendly Conversation (Finally)

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The Three Billy Goats Gruff Don't Want to Bother with the Troll So They Eat at Pizza Hut Instead

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Jack Climbs to the Top of a Very Tall Vegetable and Finds a Very Large Individual with an Attitude Problem

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Cinderella Visits the Shoe Store and Gets a Pair of Air Jordans

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Jack and Jill Go Fetch a Pail of Water and Later Decide to Change the Name of Their Story (And By the Way, What Does the Word ``Fetch'' Mean Anyway?)

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Rumplestiltskin Tries to Spell His Name

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Rapunzel Gets a Really Lousy Hairdo

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The Big Bad Wolf Goes to the Doctor to Find Out Why He Can't Huff and Puff Anymore

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A Big Round Guy Falls Off a High Wall and Causes Quite a Ruckus in the Town

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The Really, Really, Really True Story of Cinderella

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Another Story You'll Find Hard to Believe, But It's All True... Honest!

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In a Living Room in a House in Mother Goose Estates

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Part III HOP ON OVER--HERE'S A BUNCH OF FROG STORIES

The Frog Princess (And What About All Those Frog Princes?)

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The Semiconfused Prince Who Lived in a Very Large Castle by a Big Cruddy Swamp Filled with Funny Green Amphibians

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Mr. Toad: Just Another One of Those Crazy Amphibians

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Don't Kiss Us, We're Just a Bunch of Frogs!

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Picture This: It's a Photo Opportunity

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So, Who Is This Kermit Guy, Anyway?

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Part IV SOME SHORT STORIES

The Trial of Goldilocks (You Can't Bear to Miss This One. Get It? You Can't Bear....)

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A Stupid Story About a Very Slow Turtle and a Very Fast Rabbit (Except This Time the Ending's Different)

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The Incident with the Pumpkin Eater Family (And Why Would Anyone Want to Live Inside a Pumpkin Anyway?)

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Chicken Little and the Food Fight in the School Cafeteria

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Just a Bunch of Frogs Standing Around and Talking

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Part V APPENDIXES

Appendix A: A Bibliography of Some Fairy Tales, Interesting Books, and Other Great Stories (From ``Once Upon a Time'' Time) That Can Be Shared with Your Students Every Once in a While

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Appendix B: A Swampful of Strange, Weird, and Funky Titles Kids Can Use to Write Their Own Readers Theatre Scripts

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Appendix C: Resources (The Stuff You Always Find at the End of a Book)

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About the Author

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Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured Folktales for Readers Theatre

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