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- Professionally recorded scripts, poems, and songs to promote choral reading and allow students to hear rhythm and expression for increased fluency.
- Copies of poems and songs in digital and transparency formats.
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Teacher's Guide
Provides differentiation strategies and second language support activities to provide effective reading, writing, listening and speaking instructions to English language learners.
- Easy-to-use, standards-based lesson plans incorporate strategies recommended by fluency expert Dr. Timothy Rasinski and focus on improving accuracy, automaticity, and oral expression.
- Easy-to-implement lesson plans and teaching strategies for each script to maximize instructional time and minimize prep time.
- Includes additional focus on comprehension strategies, word work, and embedded literacy links to content-area topics.
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Scripts
- Each script features content-area and common literature-based texts with roles written at different reading levels to help all students participate in a proven reader's theater model.
- 8 Scripts, 6 copies each, ranging from 16-32 pages per book at different reading levels in print and digital formats Builds student fluency and oral language skills through authentic repeated readings of scripts.
- Incorporates an original song and poem that students perform within the reader's theater performances.
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Student Engagement
- Students interact cooperatively to read aloud their scripts to apply literacy skills, cooperation, and creativity into performance.
- Requires active participation to encourage reluctant and proficient readers to use expressive voices and gestures.
- Encourages all students to participate and engage in the same activity, regardless of their current reading ability, enabling all readers to gain confidence and feel successful.
- Students recognize the value of practice and hard work as they analyze their performances.
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Building Fluency through Reader's Theater Sample Pages
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This sample includes the following:
- Teacher's Guide Cover (1 page)
- Table of Contents (1 page)
- What's Included in Each Lesson (7 pages)
- Lesson Plan (6 pages)
- Script (14 pages)
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Authentically Building Fluency
Moving beyond the understanding of fluency as a speed-reading concept, a clear definition of fluency includes accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.
In this professional development, learners will:
- Identify the research that demonstrates that fluency is critical to reading comprehension.
- Develop understanding of effective assessment and instructional methods to develop fluency.
- Practice strategies and discover tools to support fluency development.
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