Readers Theater is sure to tap into your students love of drama with an anthology of funny, interesting, and engaging plays.
Click here to see sample pages. Presenting an easy-to-implement, effective way to address and involve the varying readability levels in your classroom! Reading fluency is one of the five basic areas of reading instruction, and Readers' Theater reading curriculum is a significant instructional method to improve students' fluency. Engaging plays on a variety of topics provide speaking roles for readers on levels ranging from 2 through 6. Allows students of all reading levels to participate! No costumes, no sets!
Format: soft cover, 176 pages
Recommended Grades: upper elementary and middle
Features:
- High-interest plays provide readers with a reason to reread text and to practice fluency and speaking skills.
- Convenient teacher directions for each character, summary of the play, vocabulary words to review, and questions to tap students' prior knowledge, follow-up questions to check students' comprehension, and suggestions for sound effects and props for staging the play as a radio play and/or a classroom play.
- Includes three units: Serious Plays, Humorous Plays, Poetry.
- Extension activities for each play include reading comprehension, vocabulary, other curriculum areas, and writing.
- Includes generic blacklines that can be used with any play.
- Bonus section of poems for choral reading!
Steck Vaughn has provided innovative and effective learning solutions that meet the needs of each individual learner in elementary, middle school and high school for 70 years. Steck Vaughn books are designed to engage, motivate and accelerate students to a higher level of learning while also preparing them to excel on standardized tests. Steck Vaughn offers more than 500 titles, each with high-quality content and explicit teaching instructions. Click here to see a complete list of Steck Vaughn books. |
