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Readers' theater allows students to interpret stories through voices, gestures, and expressions, bringing stories to life. It builds reading skills like confidence, comprehension, and oral reading while being fun. Readers' theater scripts can be easily adapted from books like Skippyjon Jones stories. One such script adapted Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice, where Skippyjon imagines himself going to Mars, meeting Martians who look just like him, and having an adventure before returning home.

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Skippyjon Readerstheater

Readers' theater allows students to interpret stories through voices, gestures, and expressions, bringing stories to life. It builds reading skills like confidence, comprehension, and oral reading while being fun. Readers' theater scripts can be easily adapted from books like Skippyjon Jones stories. One such script adapted Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice, where Skippyjon imagines himself going to Mars, meeting Martians who look just like him, and having an adventure before returning home.

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READERS TH EATER

Readers theater offers students an opportunity for interpretive oral reading as they use voices, facial expressions,
and hand gestures to interpret characters in stories. Readers theater builds readers confidence, brings stories to life
through performance, animates content areas, and improves reading ability, comprehension, and oral reading skills.
Whether they are in the cast or in the audience, children often enjoy being part of readers theater. Readers theater
scripts are easy to create from Skippyjon Jones books because of the narrative text. The following is a readers theater
script from Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice.

Skippyjon Jones : Lost in Spice


by Judy Schachner

Adapted for Readers Theater


CAST:
Narrator

Jilly Boo Jones

Poquito Tito

Skippyjon Jones

Jezebel Jones

Don Diego

Mama Junebug Jones

Ju-Ju Bee Jones

Martian-ito

Narrator:
Skippyjon Jones:

Skippyjon Jones was NuTS about Mars because it was a Red planet.
I love Red,
Thats what I said,
And I must-y put some rust-y
In my big-boy bed!

Narrator :
Jilly Boo Jones :
Mama Junebug Jones :
Jezebel :
Ju-Ju Bee :
Jezebel :
Mama Junebug Jones :
Skippyjon Jones :
Mama Junebug Jones :

When he stopped bouncing, Skippyjon Jones went to join his Mama and sisters in the
kitchen.
Were making Tuna Poodle casserole.
Tuna Noodle casserole. A poodle is a dog and
we dont eat dogs.
Skippyjon thinks hes a dog.
He thinks hes a chi-wow-wow.
Because his ears are too big for his head.
Thats enough! Pinky Pies ears are just fine.
May I please borrow your bottles of red spice, Mama?
Yes, you may. But you better not be thinking of doing any sprinkling,
sprinkling or tasting,
tasting
pasting, or wasting if you know what is good for you.
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Narrator :
Skippyjon Jones :

Skippyjon Jones went to his bedroom and began bouncing and pouncing and rocketing
in the rusty red dust.
Oh, Im Skippyjon Jones,

a a a a h- c a h-

And Im in a big race


To be the first dog

EY
CH O O !

To bounce into space.

Narrator :
Skippyjon Jones :
Narrator :
Skippyjon Jones :
Narrator :

Skippyjon Jones :

Then a bit of spice tickled his nose and . . .


(sneezes) aaaah-cah-CHooeY!!!
Skippyjon Jones suddenly saw his reection in the mirror.
Holy HoT Tamales! Whats up with that doggie in the mirror? You are not a
Siamese cat, dude. You are a weeck-ed Red Chihuahua!
And quicker than you can say jumping jacks on Jupiter, the kitty boy found his mask
and cape, a mirror, a marble, and his sock monkey. He stuffed these things into his space
suit, which looked a lot like a snow suit, and sang in a muy muy soft voice.
My name is Skippito Friskito (clap-clap)
And I think there are Martian perritos. (clap-clap)
Some say the green creatures
Share all of my features
I hope its not just fable-itos (clap-clap)

Narrator :

Skippyjon Jones :
Poquito Tito :
Skippyjon Jones :
Poquito Tito :
Skippyjon Jones :

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Soon, Skippyjon was all suited up and ready for


liftoff. The astronaut-ito took one small step into
his closet for Chihuahuas and one giant leap into
the universe for Los Chimichangos. He was well
into his orbit when a comet covered in crazies
cruised by.
(yelling) Who goes there?
Martian!
Martian Who?
Martian to your closet and get us some frijoles,
dude.
Poquito Tito! Is that You amigo?

Poquito Tito :
Skippyjon Jones :
Poquito Tito :
Skippyjon Jones :
Don Diego :
Narrator :
Don Diego :
Skippyjon Jones :
Poquito Tito :
Poquito Tito &
Don Diego :

S, it is all of us, Los Chimichangos. We are going to


build a chili polvo pipeline from Mars to Earth, puppito.
Not the chili powder pipeline!
Exactamente!
Por qu?
Because, amigo, the chili powder on Mars is muy caliente and it will
keep us very warm en el invierno.
Then off they zoomed. The cuckoo comet and the kitty boy made it to Mars with a soft
landing.
No offense, poco coco, but why the suit de la nieve?
Its not a SNoW suit, its a SpACe suit.
Dude, you dont need a space suit up here. You need a SpiCe suit. Mars is covered in the
chili powder, chico!
Chili-roo, chili-ree, chili-rito (clap-clap)
Its a wag of the tail for Skippito (clap-clap)
For theres nothing as nice
As a roll in hot spice
In the light of the Martian moon-itos (clap-clap)

Narrator :

Skippyjon Jones :

But a roll in the rojo should have been a no-no because quicker than you can say
monkeys making meatballs, Skippito rolled in the opposite direction from his pipline
poochitos. When he stopped, the astronaut-ito was so calor under the collar that he had to
take off his space suit.
(yelling) Mooo-chaaaaaaaa-chos! Uh-oh. Im lost in spice. (looks around). Holy green
gorillas! (he sees the Martian). Its a Martian-ito. Dude. Your ears are
too big for you head. And your head is too big for your body.

Martian:

Dude! Your ears are too big for your head.


And your head is too big for your body.

Skippyjon & Martian:

(said together) You are not a


Martian.

Skippyjon Jones : I know Im not a Martian, dude. I am a


Chihuahua. Just like you!

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Narrator :

Skippyjon, Poquito:
Tito & Don Diego:

To prove his point, Skippito pulled out the


little rojo mirror and held it so that both their
faces showed. Soon, kitty boy wanted to find
his amigos but the Martian wanted to just stare
at his image in the mirror. So Skippito took
off and in less time than it takes to tickle a
termite, he found his cuckoo-ritos inside a
crater, afraid ofthe men from Mars they have
spied.
Knock, knock. Who goes there?
Verde Martians everywhere!
Slurping sloppy ice-green cones,
Speeding in the spicy zones.
Mossy Martians on the move,
What do they think they have to prove?
We did not come here for a fight.
We want to build, we will not bite!

Narrator :
Skippyjon Jones :
Narrator :

Mama Junebug Jones :


Skippyjon Jones :
Narrator :
Skippyjon Jones :

Then Skippito saw that the Martians had all of his stuff.
MoNKeY! Thats my sock monkey!
Skippito picked up his monkeys paw but the Martian pulled it the other way. It was a tugo-monk-ito! But soon the Martian let go and kitty boy went ying, hurtling headfirst back
to Earth and out through his closet door.
Skippyjon Jones! What on earth are you doing?
I didnt do anything on Earth, Mama. I did
everything on Mars.
Later that night as Skippyjon looked
at the starry sky he began to bounce.
Oh, Im Skippyjon Jones,
and I like my red jammies,
cuz theyre made from the wool
of green Martian lambies.

Mama Junebug Jones :


Narrator :

Stop bouncing Pinky Pie.


Just go to sleep.
And thats exactly what he did.

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