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.
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"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: |
"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 |
Audio Samples
From Level 3-4 CD
Script: Teaming with Mr. Cool!
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
- Explicit instruction on content area connections
- Suggestions for using popular children's literature to introduce the scripts
- Classroom management strategies the make implementation easy
- 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
