Teaching Resource
Readers' Theatre Script - Radio Talk
A script which can be used during readers’ theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
SCENE: A popular radio station is broadcasting its morning show.
ROLES (4): Joshie (morning show host), Zack (morning show host), Whip (morning show host), Krystal (morning news reader)
READER AGES: 8 years and over
Scripts are available for download in black and white and colour versions.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN2-8B
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
- EN3-3A
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
- EN3-7C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
- DRAS2.4
Responds to, and interprets drama experiences and performances
- DRAS3.1
Develops a range of in-depth and sustained roles.
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCADRP027
Shape and perform dramatic action using narrative structures and tension in devised and scripted drama
- VCADRP031
Perform devised and scripted drama that develops narrative and uses performance styles and design elements to engage an audience
- VCELY256
Read an increasing range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge, using text processing strategies, including confirming, rereading and cross-checking
- VCELY287
Read different types of texts for specific purposes by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming, scanning and reviewing
- VCELY318
Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring...
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACADRM037
Rehearse and perform devised and scripted drama that develops narrative, drives dramatic tension, and uses dramatic symbol, performance styles and design elements to share community and cultural stories and engage an audience
- ACADRM033
Shape and perform dramatic action using narrative structures and tension in devised and scripted drama, including exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drama
- ACELY1679
Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correctingElabo...
- ACELY1691
Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewingElaborationsreading new and different kinds of texts with...
- ACELY1702
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanningElaborationsbringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge...
- ACELY1712
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadingsElaborationsbringing subject and...

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