All scripts which are used with GMRT families contain four (4) elements making them unique.
- Every script has an introduction page for readers to explore before, during and after group meetings. This is often referred to as Flipped Learning.
- Parts are all color-coded for easier reading and to maintain readers’ focus and place in the script.
- Pictures added to scripts are placed on the right side of the text to enhance the text without interfering with the reading.
- Vocabulary and/or words of special interest are highlighted and linked to their pronunciation and definition.
Our Executive Board reviews every script before it is placed in a curated library which is made accessible to all licensed facilitators of GMRT Families.
3 sample scripts:
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake – An example of using a simple “picture” book. Although a simple story, review the introduction to see how many different academics are addressed?
- The Lily Root– An example of turning a short story into script. Again, look at the variety of things to explore in the introduction.
- Fred Rogers – An example of an original script.
Below is a list of our scripts:
TITLE
Creator /Script writer
Description
Anansi’s Feast
Glenn McCarty -Adapted for GMRT by Tracy Hanson
Anansi is a well-known cultural icons among West Africans who, often is the tricked rather than the trickster.
Ant and the Grasshopper
Glenn McCarty -Adapted for GMRT by Tracy Hanson
An Aesoph Fable
Lily Root
Tracy Hanson
Ojibway story about Indengenous People and their use of nature for healing
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
by Laura Numeroff, GMRT script by Tracy Hanson
If you give a pig a pancake you might think that’s the end of it. But not for this pig.
Little Red Riding Hood
Richard Swallow -Adapted for GMRT by Tracy Hanson
Classic tale by the Grimm Brothers
Mr. Rogers
Tracy Hanson
Fred Rogers life and influence on children’s TV
Not “The Night Before Christmas”
Story by Carol Montgomery
Scripted for GMRT by Tracy Hanson
Christmas poem parody
The Elephant Child
Story by Rudyard Kipling/Scripted by Tracy Hanson
A tale of how the elephant got its trunk
The Emperors New Clothes
Fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen
Adapted by Tracy Hanson
A take of cunning and the willingness of people to believe what others say although it’s wrong.
The Frog Prince Continued
Story by Jon Scieszka/Scripted by Jill Jauquet
A new ending to an old Brothers Grimm German Fairytail
The Great Kopek Tree
By Lynne Cherry
Adapted by Tracy Hanson
A tale of the rainforest.
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Story by Paul Galdon/Adapted by Tracy Hanson
A tale of the rainforest.
Thunder and Lightning
Retold by Cindy Pioli, GMRT script by Keshab Prasad Parajuli
Nigerian folktale
Gruffalo
Tale by Julia Donaldson / Adapted by Tracy Hanson
A story of a cleaver mouse tricking predators
The Little Red Hen
Adapted by Tracy Hanson
Should you reap the rewards when you don’t do any of the work?
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by Jon Scieska / Scripted for GMRT by Tracy Hanson
Well-know story from the wolves point of view of the wolf.
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Poem by Clement Clarke Moore/ Scripted for GMRT by Tracy Hanson
Traditional American Christmas poem
Yuuki and the Tsuname
Retold by Elaine L. Lindy & Adapted by P. J. Rittige /Adapted for GMRT by Divya Gupta
Japanese story about the village people getting ready to celebrate a good rice harvest.
Where the Wild Things Are
Story by Maurice Sendak
Adapted by Tracy Hanson
A story of childhood beliefs and imagination.
Why Cats Live in Houses
Tales from the Grassland and the Forest by Agnes Ngoh Nzuh. Adapted by Neba Bineh Grace and Tracy Hanson
Tale from Camaroon, Africa, explaining why cats live in house.
The Wizard, the Fairy and the Chicken
Story by Helen Lester, Scripted by Jill Jauquet
A story of of collaboration