readers' theater

Contains nine reader's theater scripts about ancient civilizations--which includes the Aztecs, Inca, Maya, Romans, Mesopotamians, and others--that are designed to promote fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills in fifth and sixth grade students.

An introduction to classroom performance that provides information on selecting and analyzing literature, adapting Readers Theatre literature,, playing space and staging, classroom performance exercises, and other related topics.

Presents twelve reproducible read-aloud plays designed to help students in grades four through six at varying reading levels build their reading fluency skills.

Presents ten Readers Theatre scripts selected to engage middle school boys, including adaptations of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," providing an introduction and production notes with each.

A readers' theater script for six characters that adapts William Shakespeare's play in which a man kills his king after hearing the prophesies of three witches.

Presents a comprehensive guide to readers theatre that shows how to implement Readers Theatre in the classroom as well as meet current literacy standards.

Readers' Theater helps build oral fluency and strengthens reading and language arts skills for students. It also promotes teamwork and helps develop student confidence.

Presents plays adapted from sixteen literary classics and includes scenes from novel with adaptation suggestions.

Presents content-based readers' theater scripts designed to help third graders improve their reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills, with activities and response questions for each script.