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Building Fluency Through Reader's Theater: More Information

Improves fluency with meaningful, repeated reading that fully engages students.

  • Scripts capture student's interest, so they will want to practice and perform.
  • Lessons and teaching strategies clearly demonstrate how easy it is to implement reader's theater in your classroom.
  • Content area connections incorporate language arts, science, social studies, and math.
  • A professionally recorded CD of original songs and poems plus the scripts allows students to hear the rhythm and expression that define fluency.
Research Shows...

"Fluency is the crucial bridge between word recognition and comprehension. And repeated oral readings are a key method for building fluency in all students."

-Report of the National Reading Panel:
Teaching Children to Read

(April, 2000)

"Reader's Theater provides readers with legitimate reason to reread text and to practice fluency. Reader's theater also promotes cooperative interaction with peers and makes the reading task appealing."

-Put Reading First: The Research
Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read

U.S. Department of Education
(2001)

Audio Samples

From Level 3-4 CD
Script: Teaming with Mr. Cool!

Theme Song(.mp3 1.2MB)
Cool Coyote(.mp3 2.23MB)
Sample Poem(.mp3 1.42MB)
Mr. Cool, Act 1(.mp3 3.05MB)

Lyrics to "Cool Coyote"

Contents:

6 copies of 8 different scripts
  • High Interest and engaging
  • Multiple reading levels so all students can fully participate
  • Topics connect to the content areas
Lesson Plans
  • Explicit instruction on content area connections
  • Suggestions for using popular children's literature to introduce the scripts
  • Classroom management strategies the make implementation easy
CDs and Bonus Items
  • Professionally recorded songs and poems incorporate movement and choral reading -- great for second language and below level readers
  • Recordings of the texts of all scripts -- Perfect for listening centers and reinforcing fluency
  • Overhead transparencies with song and poem lyrics
  • Reproducibles and home-school connections
TCM10010 Sample
Sample Script

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