- Readers" Theater helps students practice reading orally with fluency and expression. Each Readers" Theater book contains fifteen complete scripts that provide all the fun and interest of full-scale dramatic productions. Readers" Theater, Grade 1 productions offer teachers the flexibility of casting more than one reader for each role as a way to support emerging readers. The 15 scripts include the following features that provide additional support for emerging readers: Simple rhyming text, scripts based on familiar folktales, and a patterned story structure.