You Read To Me, I'll Read To You : Readers Theater Scripts For 2 Readers

You Read to Me,
I’ll Read to You …

Very Short Stories to Read Together
READERS THEATER
SCRIPTS
FOR 2 READERS
by Mary Ann Hoberman

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The Two Mice
Reader 1: “The Two Mice”
Reader 2: By Mary Ann Hoberman
Reader 1: I see a mouse.
Reader 2: I see one, too!
Both: We see two mice. What shall we do?
Reader 1: Let’s give them names.
Reader 2: What shall they be?
Reader 1: Pipe and Peep?
Reader 2: He and She?
Reader 1: Dot and Dash?
Reader 2: Squeal and Squeak?
Reader 1: To and Fro?
Reader 2: Hide and Seek?
Reader 1: Two mice are nice.
Reader 2: Two mice are fun.
Reader 1: They’re twice as nice
Reader 2: As only one.

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Reader 1: And when we read,
Reader 2: It’s just the same.
Reader 1: Two readers reading
Reader 2: Make it a game.
Reader 1: It’s twice as nice
Reader 2: When there are two.
Both: You read to me. I’ll read to you.

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The Big Cat
Reader 1: “The Big Cat”
Reader 1: Oh my. I spy a great big cat!
Reader 2: A great big cat? I don’t like that!
Reader 1: Run, mice, run!
Reader 2: Stay, cat, stay!
Both: Oh, good, the mice have got away!
Reader 1: Now, pussycat, that isn’t nice.

You shouldn’t scare the little mice.
Reader 2: We know you want them for your food,

But eating mice is really rude.
Reader 1: It’s not a proper thing to do.

Why, what if someone gobbled you?
Reader 2: Think how sad your friends would feel

If you were eaten for a meal.
Reader 1: We’ll give you cream. your very own,

If you will leave the mice alone.
Reader 2: And when you’re done and full and fat,

We’ll find a book about a cat,

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Reader 1: A cat like you with fluffy fur
Who laps up cream and loves to purr,
Reader 2: And lives inside a little house,

And never ever dines on mouse.
Both: We both will read the book to you.

(The mice can sit and listen, too.)

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I Hate My Hat
Reader 1: “I Hate My Hat”
Reader 1: I hate my hat!
Reader 2: I think it’s nice.
Reader 2: You’ve said that twice.
Reader 2: Now that’s a third.
Reader 2: I hate that word!
Reader 1: You hate that word? What word is that?
Reader 2: The word you said.
Reader 1: You mean my hat?
Reader 2: No, not your hat! Your hat looks great.

I like your hat. It’s hate I hate.
Reader 1: But not my hat? You don’t hate that?
Reader 2: Of course I don’t. I like your hat.

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Reader 1: You like my hat?
Reader 2: I said I do. I think your hat looks good on you.
Reader 1: You like my hat?
Reader 2: I like it fine. I like your hat. Do you like mine?
Reader 1: Why, yes, I do. It suits your head.

Now let’s do something else instead.
Reader 2: Something else we both would like.
Reader 1: Let’s wear our hats and ride a bike.
Reader 2: That sounds good. We’ll take a snack.
Reader 1: What should we do when we get back?
Both: Something that we like to do.

You read to me. I’ll read to you.

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Hop and Skip
Reader 1: “Hop and Skip”
Reader 1: I like to hop!
Reader 2: I like to skip!
Reader 1: But sometimes when I hop, I trip.
Reader 2: And sometimes when I skip, I slip.
Both: And sometimes then our clothes might rip.
Reader 1: And when they rip, my mom gets mad.
Reader 2: And when they rip, so does my dad.
Reader 1: My mom says, “Walk instead of run.”
Reader 2: My dad does, too. But that’s no fun.
Both: If you just walk to where you go

Instead of run, you go too slow.
Reader 1: But if you skip,
Reader 2: Or if you hop,
Both: Sometimes it’s real hard to stop.
Reader 1: But sometimes it is nice to sit.
Reader 2: Then let’s sit down a little bit.

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Reader 1: What shall we do?
Reader 2: Now let me see.
Both: I’ll read to you. You’ll read to me.

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The Snowman
Reader 1: “The Snowman”
Reader 1: Hi Ho! Hi Ho! The world is white!
Reader 2: Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It snowed last night!
Reader 1: It snowed while we were fast asleep.
Reader 2: It’s nice and high. It’s very deep.
Reader 1: Put on your clothes, the ones for snow.
Reader 2: Pull on your boots and then let’s go!
Reader 1: What shall we do the first of all?
Reader 2: Let’s build a snowman. Roll a ball.
Reader 1: I’ll roll the bottom on the ground.
Reader 2: I’ll make the middle nice and round.
Reader 1: I’ll find a pebble for each eye.
Reader 2: And if he starts to melt, he’ll cry!
Reader 1: His mouth can be an apple slice.
Reader 2: An apple slice will turn to ice.
Reader 1: I’m getting pretty icy, too.

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Reader 2: You do look icy.
Reader 1: So do you.
Reader 2: Let’s go inside and get a drink.
Reader 1: Some cocoa would be good, I think.
Reader 2: And while we’re in, what shall we do?
Both: You read to me. I’ll read to you.

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The Dime
Reader 1: “The Dime”
Reader 1: I found a dime!
Reader 2: You found a dime?
Reader 1: I’m finding money all the time.
Reader 2: Where do you find it?
Reader 1: Here and there. Along the street and everywhere.
Reader 2: I lost a dime.
Reader 1: You lost a dime?
Reader 2: I’m losing money all the time.

I wonder if you found my dime.
Reader 1: I found my dime at dinnertime.
Reader 2: I lost my dime at five o’clock

When I was walking down the block.
Reader 1: If what I found belongs to you,

There’s just one dime instead of two.
Reader 2: Shall we divide the dime in two?
Reader 1: A nickel each? It’s up to you.
Reader 2: Or shall we buy one thing to share?

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Reader 1: That would be fun. That would be fair.
Reader 2: We could buy a storybook.
Reader 1: We’ll hold it so we both can look.
Reader 2: We’ll hold it so we both can see.
Both: I’ll read to you. You’ll read to me.

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My Snake
Reader 1: “My Snake”
Reader 1: I have a snake. Her name is Jill.

She sits upon the windowsill.
Reader 2: You keep a snake to be your pet?

A pretty scary pet, I bet.
Reader 1: Jill isn’t scary, not a bit.
Reader 2: But can she fetch or can she sit?
Reader 1: She hasn’t learned to do that yet,

But still she is a perfect pet.
Reader 2: But can she beg or chase a ball?

Does she come running when you call?
Reader 1: She cannot beg or chase or run.

But still Jill is a lot of fun.
Reader 2: She doesn’t sound like fun to me.

What can she do? What fun is she?
Reader 1: Well, Jill can hiss, and Jill can smile.
Reader 2: Your snake can smile?
Reader 1: Once in a while. And Jill can shed her snaky skin.
Reader 2: She sheds her skin? Then what’s she in?
Reader 1: She’s in another skin that’s new.

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Reader 2: Well, that’s a clever thing to do.
Reader 1: And when I read my favorite books,

Jill hangs around my neck and looks.
Reader 2: A thing like that I’d like to see.

Will Jill look at some books with me?
Reader 1: She’ll do it if I’m reading, too.
Reader 2: Well, then, I know what we should do.
Both: You read to me! I’ll read to you!

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The Telephone
Reader 1: “The Telephone”
Reader 1: Ding-a-ling!
Reader 2: Ting-a-ling!
Reader 1: Hello!
Reader 2: Hello!
Reader 1: Hello!
Reader 2: Hello!
Reader 1: It’s me.
Reader 2: I know. It’s me.
Reader 1: I know. Are you in bed?
Reader 2: Not yet. Are you?
Reader 1: I’m almost there.
Reader 2: I’m almost, too.
Reader 1: I’m in pajamas.
Reader 2: I’m not yet. I took a bath. My hair’s still wet.
Reader 1: Did you do the spelling list?

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Reader 2: I did. Did you? There’s one I missed.
Reader 1: I missed two. I had to look.
Reader 2: Have you read the chapter book?
Reader 1: I’ve just started Chapter Three.
Reader 2: I have, too, so read with me!
Reader 1: Read together, not alone,

while we’re on the telephone?
Reader 2: It won’t take long to get it done.
Reader 1: I’ll get my book. It sounds like fun.
Reader 2: Back and forth until we’re through.

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The Puppy
Reader 1: “The Puppy”
Reader 1: The puppy’s muddy! Look at her!
Reader 2: I’ve never seen such dirty fur!
Reader 1: My goodness, she’s a grubby pup!
Reader 2: I think we better clean her up.
Reader 1: Let’s put the puppy in the tub,
Reader 2: And give the pup a great big scrub
Reader 1: With lots of water, lots of soap,
Reader 2: And that will get her clean, I hope.
Reader 1: Now rinse her off. Her bath is done.
Reader 2: It’s time to dry her in the sun.
Reader 1: She looks so pretty. All fluffed up.
Reader 1: I’ve never seen so clean a pup.
Reader 2: Oops! Oh, my! She got away!
Reader 1: She’s in the mud! Her coat is gray!
Reader 2: She’s dirtier than yesterday!

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Reader 1: She’s having fun. Let’s let her play.
Reader 2: Then let’s find something else to do.
Reader 1: I know what, and you do, too!

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The Bear
Reader 1: “The Bear”
Reader 1: My little brother saw a bear.
Reader 2: He saw a bear? He saw it where?
Reader 1: He said he saw it in his bed.

That’s where it was, my brother said.
Reader 2: Your brother saw a bear in bed? In his own bed?
Reader 1: That’s what he said.
Reader 2: I bet it gave him quite a fright!
Reader 1: It asked if it could spend the night.
Reader 2: Spend the night right in his bed?

The bear asked that?
Reader 1: That’s what he said.
Reader 2: So then what did your brother say?
Reader 1: He told the bear that it could stay,

That it could stay a night or more
If it would promise not to snore.
Reader 2: Your little brother sounds quite brave

To tell a bear how to behave.

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Reader 1: He said he fed it from a cup.
(Sometimes he likes to make things up.)
Reader 2: He made it up about the bear?
Reader 1: Perhaps he did, but I don’t care.

It’s still a story that is fun.
Reader 2: Then let’s make up another one.
Both: We’ll write it down and when we’re through,

You’ll read to me! I’ll read to you!

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New Friends
Reader 1: “New Friends”
Reader 1: My birthday’s here!
Reader 2: And mine is, too!
Reader 1: How old are you?
Reader 2: How old are you?
Reader 1: I asked you first. You’ve got to say.
Reader 2: All right, I’m six. I’m six today.
Reader 1: Why, I am, too! We’re just the same!

We both are six!
Reader 2: Well, what’s your name?
Reader 1: Well, what is yours?
Reader 2: You’ve got to tell. I asked you first.
Reader 1: It’s Annabelle. Now what is yours?
Reader 2: Why don’t you guess?
Reader 1: You’ve got to tell.
Reader 2: All right, it’s Jess.
Reader 1: Where do you live?

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Reader 2: I live quite near. Where do you live?
Reader 1: A block from here.
Reader 2: It’s funny that we’ve never met.

I’ve walked right by your house, I bet.
Reader 1: I bet I’ve walked right by yours, too.

And yet we never even knew.
Reader 2: Well, let’s be friends.
Reader 1: I’d like that fine.
Reader 2: Now you’re my friend.
Reader 1: And you are mine.
Reader 2: Do you know how to read?
Reader 1: Do you?
Reader 2: I asked you first.
Reader 1: I can.
Reader 2: Me, too.
Both: Well, if we both can read, let’s do!

You read to me! I’ll read to you!

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I Like
Reader 1: “I Like”
Reader 1: I like soda.
Reader 2: I like milk.
Reader 1: I like satin.
Reader 2: I like silk.
Reader 1: I like puppies.
Reader 2: I like kittens.
Reader 1: I like gloves.
Reader 2: I like mittens.
Reader 1: I like apples.
Reader 2: I like pears.
Reader 1: I like tigers.
Reader 2: I like bears.
Reader 1: I like to slide.
Reader 2: I like to swing.
Both: We don’t agree on anything!

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Reader 1: I like butter.
Reader 2: I like jam.
Reader 1: I like turkey.
Reader 2: I like ham.
Reader 1: I like rivers.
Reader 2: I like lakes.
Reader 1: I like cookies.
Reader 2: And I like cakes.
Reader 1: I like yellow.
Reader 2: I like blue.
Reader 1: I like pizza.
Reader 2: I like stew.
Reader 1: I like summer.
Reader 2: I like spring.
Both: We don’t agree on anything!
Reader 1: There’s something else I like a lot.

But if I like it, you will not.
Reader 2: There’s something else that I like, too.

But you won’t like it if I do.
Reader 1: Tell me yours, and I’ll tell mine.

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Reader 2: I like reading. Reading’s fine!
Reader 1: You like reading?
Reader 2: Yes, I do.
Reader 1: Why, reading was what I picked, too!
Both: Well, then, at last we both agree!

I’ll read to you! You read to me!

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You Read to Me,

I’ll Read to You …

by Mary Ann Hoberman

Reader 1: “The Two Mice”

Reader 2: By Mary Ann Hoberman

Reader 1: I see a mouse.

Reader 2: I see one, too!

Both: We see two mice. What shall we do?

Reader 1: Let’s give them names.

Reader 2: What shall they be?

Reader 1: Pipe and Peep?

Reader 2: He and She?

Reader 1: Dot and Dash?

Reader 2: Squeal and Squeak?

Reader 1: To and Fro?

Reader 2: Hide and Seek?

Reader 1: Two mice are nice.

Reader 2: Two mice are fun.

Reader 1: They’re twice as nice

Reader 2: As only one.

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Reader 2: It’s just the same.

Reader 1: Two readers reading

Reader 2: Make it a game.

Reader 1: It’s twice as nice

Reader 2: When there are two.

Both: You read to me. I’ll read to you.

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Reader 1: “The Big Cat”

Reader 2: By Mary Ann Hoberman

Reader 1: Oh my. I spy a great big cat!

Reader 2: A great big cat? I don’t like that!

Reader 1: Run, mice, run!

Reader 2: Stay, cat, stay!

Both: Oh, good, the mice have got away!

Reader 1: Now, pussycat, that isn’t nice.

Reader 2: We know you want them for your food,

Reader 1: It’s not a proper thing to do.

Reader 2: Think how sad your friends would feel

Reader 1: We’ll give you cream. your very own,

Reader 2: And when you’re done and full and fat,

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Reader 2: And lives inside a little house,

Both: We both will read the book to you.

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Reader 1: “I Hate My Hat”

Reader 2: By Mary Ann Hoberman

Reader 1: I hate my hat!

Reader 2: I think it’s nice.

Reader 1: I hate my hat!

Reader 2: You’ve said that twice.

Reader 1: I hate my hat!

Reader 2: Now that’s a third.

Reader 1: I hate my hat!

Reader 2: I hate that word!

Reader 1: You hate that word? What word is that?

Reader 2: The word you said.

Reader 1: You mean my hat?

Reader 2: No, not your hat! Your hat looks great.