Presents twenty readers theater scripts on scientific principles and possibilities, which cast students in grades 4-8 in the roles of explorers, discoverers, scientists, and aliens. Includes activity ideas and learning extensions.
motivational strategies, successful lessons and dynamic scripts to develop fluency, comprehension, writing and vocabulary
Fredericks, Anthony D
2008
Contains teaching strategies, lesson plans, scripts, and reproducible pages for using readers theatre to build fluency in kindergarten through eighth grade students.
Offers teachers thirty short nonfiction readers theatre plays designed to expose young readers to a wide range of topics, with factual, curriculum-related information and activities to help them understand nonfiction text and build their reading skills.
Contains fifteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in first and second graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.
14 reproducible read-aloud plays that boost comprehension by teaching kids dozens and dozens of must-know idioms
Appelbaum, Marci
2010
Contains fourteen reproducible, read-aloud plays that introduce students in grades three to six to 130 common idioms, each with teaching tips and extension activities.