French Reader’s Theatre Scripts | Decodable Plays for AU & EAU | Fluency & Phonics Activities
Looking for a fun, low-pressure way to build your students’ fluency, decoding confidence, and expression — all while reinforcing the French spellings “au” and “eau”? These decodable French plays are the perfect blend of phonics practice and performance!
With 75 pages of engaging material, this resource includes three short, repetitive, and decodable plays, plus supporting activities, props, and multiple script formats to suit your learners’ needs.
Designed for early readers who know their letter sounds, these scripts focus on words containing au and eau, while also incorporating the previously introduced sounds on and ou. Any high-frequency words students may need to review are clearly listed at the top of each script before reading.
What’s Included:
3 Original Decodable Plays:
- La taupe
- À la plage
- La fête d’Audrée
Each script uses simple, repetitive language with a strong focus on words containing au and/or eau, helping students practise these two common spellings for the same sound in meaningful context.
3 Script Formats for Each Play:
1️⃣ Single-role highlighted script (colour) — One student’s part is highlighted, allowing them to focus on just their own lines
2️⃣ All-in-one multi-colour script — Each character is colour-coded, making it ideal for partner reading or small-group performances
3️⃣ Black & white script — Perfect for grayscale printing or for students to highlight and colour-code their own parts
Bonus Hands-On Materials:
- Character Crowns – Fun headbands students can wear while performing
- Story Props & Puppets – Cut them out, attach them to popsicle sticks, and use them to act out or retell each story
- Story Setting Backgrounds – Pair them with the puppets and props to create an engaging oral retelling centre
Also Included: Printable Activity Sheets
- Decode, Cut & Paste Worksheets – Students read decodable words from each play and match them to the correct pictures
- Orthographic Mapping Sheets – Students say each word, tap the sounds, and write one sound in each box to connect decoding and encoding
- Story Sequencing Pages – Students put key events from each play in order to practise comprehension and oral retelling
Skills Practiced:
- French phonics and decoding
- Reading words with au and eau
- Review of previously introduced on and ou
- Reading fluency
- Expression and prosody
- High-frequency word recognition
- Orthographic mapping and encoding
- Oral retelling and comprehension
- Story sequencing
- Cooperative reading and performance
Perfect For:
- Literacy centres
- Small-group reading
- Phonics instruction
- Reading intervention
- Partner reading
- Whole-class reader’s theatre
- Fluency practice
- Oral language practice
- Performance day or just-for-fun classroom performances
These plays are easy to prep, flexible to use, and intentionally low-pressure, making them especially helpful for students who may be reluctant to read aloud. The combination of decodable text, repeated reading, performance, and hands-on follow-up activities gives students multiple opportunities to practise the same phonics skills while building confidence and fluency.
🎭 Add these AU/EAU reader’s theatre plays to your literacy block and turn phonics practice into something your students can’t wait to perform!
***************************************************************************
This download entitles the purchaser to use it in ONE classroom only. Thank you so much for respecting my time and effort!
