Kids often learn best through cooperative activities with peers. I believe that kids are often the best teachers to their classmates for a couple of reasons. First, kids speak kid. They communicate on a different level than teachers to students. Secondly, kids often accept feedback from peers more easily than they do from teachers. You can choose to use a variety of scripts on different levels. You can also edit certain parts to be more or less difficult.
This one is simple. You can pick fun, seasonal topics. You can make them silly. And students will love it. Students also develop speaking skills. Keep it simple! The goal is to practice reading fluency, not create a performance. We have launched the new ReadWriteThink. Give Feedback. Strategy Guide. Readers Theatre. Lila Ubert Carrick, Ed.
Performing Literature to Promote Fluency and Comprehension. See all Strategy Guides in this series. About this Strategy Guide. Research Basis. Strategy in Practice. Distribute and introduce the script to the students and have them make predictions about the story or characters. Ask students to follow along as you read the script aloud, modeling the appropriate intonation, volume, and pitch as well as varied voice inflections for different characters.
The setting? Excepts can be used very effectively. Be sure to keep in mind the reading level of the readers in selecting a piece of text. Choose text that is within the reach of your readers and that they can read aloud successfully, given repeated practice. Start with picture books. Model how to create a script and create several scripts as a class before asking the students to create their own scripts in small, cooperative groups.
Once you have selected the piece of text you wish to adapt to script form, show the students how to …. Linda Cornwell currently serves as the national literacy specialist for the Paperbacks and Classroom Library group of Scholastic, Inc.
Performers bring the text alive by using voice, facial expressions, and some gestures Benefits of Using Readers Theater in the Classroom or Library? Readers Theater helps to…. Tips for Implementing Readers Theater Model expressive reading often. Select scripts that involve many readers. I prefer the ones that give more readers fewer words.
Short scripts are best in the beginning. Students need to learn to listen to the Reader's Theater script just as much as they need to learn to read the script. Provide each reader with a separate script, highlighting his or her part with yellow or another appropriate color. I like to put the scripts in folders for a more "professional" look. Give the readers the opportunity to read the script to themselves silently, and to read their parts to themselves aloud.
Not reliant on the trappings of some dramatic exercises, Reader's Theater is built upon fine texts used well. In her own classroom, Finney found that Reader's Theater was most successful when her students were "crazy about the script.
Peggy Sharp , a former classroom teacher and library media specialist. Reader's Theater is more effective when one person is not reading too many lines while the others wait. Sharp is a consultant who shares the best of new children's books and strategies for using them in the classroom. That's it. And then magic happens. Freeman's "magic" occurs when the students get to be on stage -- even if that stage is the floor of the classroom or library.
Shy kids blossom, and students develop a strong sense of community. With Reader's Theater, they're not just reading a story; they're living it. It'll be rough, but who cares? The second time, they'll be able to focus on enjoying the performance and their parts in it. You can, if you wish, carry it further, adding props, costumes, and scenery; memorizing lines; or even putting on the play for other groups.
You don't have to, though. It's the process that's important here, not a finished product. She explained, "A sensitive teacher who knows the capabilities and reading levels of his or her students will be careful to assign the proper reading parts to the proper readers so everyone can have fun and succeed. Other experts also told Education World about their favorite texts for Reader's Theater activities.
All are endlessly fun to act out, simple without being simplistic, and with lots of bustle and humor. More information is available at Scripts for Schools. Leave this field blank. Search Search. Newsletter Sign Up. Columnists All Columnists Ken Shore School Issues: Glossary.
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