Valentine's Day Readers' Theater: Cupid and Psyche

This reader’s theater script with 15 speaking parts tells the story of Cupid and Psyche from Roman mythology. This readers’ theater is perfect for Valentine’s Day and makes a great addition to a unit on Ancient Rome or Roman mythology!

In this Roman myth, Psyche is a stunningly beautiful girl. People throughout the land worship her beauty so much that they forget the goddess Venus. Venus becomes angry that her temples are falling to ruin, so she plots to ruin Psyche. She instructs her son, Cupid, to pierce the girl with an arrow and make her fall in love with the most vile, hideous man alive. But when Cupid sees Psyche with all her beauty, he shoots himself with the arrow instead. Will true love triumph over the jealous goddess?

Students become excited about reading in readers’ theater. Help your students develop fluency by allowing multiple readings of this script. Encourage them to use expressiveness, intonation, and inflection when rehearsing the text. Allow students to cut out the picture icon (from page iv in this packet) for their character and put them on construction paper headbands to wear while reading.

Readers’ theaters are great for your sub packets!

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Flesch-Kincaid: 5.1

Lexile 890

Curriculum tie-ins:

• Valentine’s Day
• Ancient Rome
• Roman mythology

More Readers’ Theaters from My Reading Resources:

Grades K-2

• The Little Red Hen Learns About St. Patrick’s Day (grades K-3)
• Readers’ Theater for Two (grades K-2)
• A Groundhog Day Readers’ Theater (grades K-2)
• The Gingerbread Man (grades 1-3)
• The Little Red Hen’s Valentine’s Day Gift (grades 1-5)
• The Rooster, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen (grades 1-3)

Grades 2-5

• The Fox and the Grapes (grades 2-3)
• The Ant and the Chrysalis (grades 2-3)
• The Ant and the Grasshopper (grades 2-3)
• The Hare and the Tortoise (grades 2-3)
• The Elves and the Shoemaker (grades 2-5)
• The North Wind and the Sun (grades 2-3)
• The Peacock and the Crane (grades 2-5)
• The Little Red Hen’s Valentine’s Day Gift (grades 1-5)
• Cupid, Explained (grades 2-4)
• Daylight Savings Time (grades 2-5)
• The Headless Horseman (adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) (grades 3-6)
• Twas the Night Before Christmas (grades 3-6)
• The Adventures of Aladdin (grades 2-5)
• Visit Ancient Greece (grades 2-5)
• Bundle: March Readers’ Theaters: Five Scripts for Spring (grades 2-4)
• Bundle: Seven Aesop’s Fables (grades 2-3)

Grades 5 & up

• The Story of the Constitution (grades 5-12)

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