French Reader’s Theatre Scripts | Decodable Plays for AN & EN | Fluency & Phonics Activities
Looking for an engaging way to help your French primary students practise the complex sound AN/EN while building decoding skills, reading fluency, confidence, and expression?
This 80+-page French Reader’s Theatre resource includes three short, decodable plays designed specifically for early readers. Each play gives students meaningful opportunities to practise reading words containing an and en in connected text — while having fun performing with their classmates!
The scripts use simple, repetitive, decodable text and are designed for students who know their letter sounds and the complex sounds introduced in previous plays. Any high-frequency words students may need are clearly identified at the top of the scripts for review before reading.
What’s Included:
3 Original Decodable Plays:
- Le plan
- Le dentiste
- Le serpent
Each script focuses on the AN/EN sound and provides plenty of opportunities to encounter it naturally in words such as plan, banc, plante, dents, gants, cent, and more.
3 Script Formats for Each Play:
1️⃣ Single-role highlighted script (colour) — Only one student’s part is highlighted so they can focus specifically on their own lines.
2️⃣ All-in-one multi-colour script — Each character’s part is highlighted in a different colour, making it easy for students to follow along during partner or small-group performances.
3️⃣ Black & white script — A printer-friendly option that students can highlight or colour-code themselves.
Bonus Hands-On Materials:
- Character Crowns for students to wear while performing
- Puppets & Story Props that can be cut out and attached to popsicle sticks
- Setting Pages that students can use with the puppets to act out and retell each story
These materials are perfect for extending the plays into a hands-on oral language or story retelling centre.
Printable Follow-Up Activities:
- Decode, Cut & Paste Worksheets — Students decode vocabulary from the plays and match each word to the correct picture.
- Orthographic Mapping Sheets — Students say each word, identify its sounds, and map those sounds into boxes, connecting decoding with encoding.
- Story Sequencing Pages — Students put important events from each play in order to reinforce comprehension, sequencing, and oral retelling.
Skills Practiced:
- French phonics
- Decoding words containing an/en
- Previously taught complex sounds
- Reading fluency
- Expression and prosody
- High-frequency word recognition
- Orthographic mapping
- Encoding
- Reading comprehension
- Story sequencing
- Oral retelling
- Cooperative reading
Perfect For:
- French literacy centres
- Small-group reading
- Guided phonics practice
- Partner reading
- Reading intervention
- Fluency practice
- Whole-class Reader’s Theatre
- Oral language practice
- Repeated reading
- Fun classroom performances
Because students have a meaningful reason to reread the same text, Reader’s Theatre makes repeated reading feel like preparation for a performance rather than repetitive practice. The different script formats also make it easy to adjust the activity for students who need the extra support of seeing only their own highlighted lines or who are ready to follow the entire script.
These plays are intentionally low-pressure, flexible, easy to prep, and fun, making them a great option for reluctant readers as well as students who already love performing.
🎭 Add these AN/EN French decodable plays to your phonics instruction and give your students a fun reason to read the same sound again and again!
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