Teaching Resource
Readers' Theater Script - Muddy Footprint Mystery
A script which can be used during readers’ theater or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
SCENE: A robbery investigation. The police are conducting an interview in the living room of the victims’ home.
ROLES (5): Constable Rodgers (Police Officer), Constable Ibraham (Police Officer), Mrs. Myers (robbery victim), Mr. Myers (robbery victim), Beverley (neighbor)
READER AGES: 10 years and over
Scripts are available for download in black and white and color versions.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4.B
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

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