Readers Theatre in Rhyme

Readers Theatre in Rhyme
Author: Carl Braun
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2005
Genre: Children's plays
ISBN: 1553790723

Readers Theatre in Rhyme features 22 reproducible tales scripted in rollicking and sometimes whimsical rhythms and rhymes. These include well-known traditional tales from around the world and a modern version of an urban Red Riding Hood adapted from a story written by a young Manitoba author. Using these scripts is an engaging way for older and younger readers alike to work in a collaborative learning environment and to learn the importance of critical listening. Teachers will enjoy the unique approach to instruction. These scripts are invitations to all--the struggling reader, the ESL learner, and the most competent reader in the class.

Readers Theatre

Readers Theatre
Author: Win Braun
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781895805307

More than 30 reproducible scripts in an easy-to-read, large-print format. The scripts are written for two to nine readers. Includes scripts from such classics as Goldilocks, The Three Little Pigs, and Peter Rabbit.

Readers Theatre for Young Children

Readers Theatre for Young Children
Author: Win Braun
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781895805369

Readers Theatre in Rhyme features 22 reproducible tales scripted in rollicking and sometimes whimsical rhythms and rhymes. These include well-known traditional tales from around the world and a modern version of an urban Red Riding Hood adapted from a story written by a young Manitoba author. Using these scripts is an engaging way for older and younger readers alike to work in a collaborative learning environment and to learn the importance of critical listening. Teachers will enjoy the unique approach to instruction. These scripts are invitations to all--the struggling reader, the ESL learner, and the most competent reader in the class.

Rhyming Dust Bunnies

Rhyming Dust Bunnies
Author: Jan Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2010-11-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 141698528X

Bug! Rug! Mug! Hug! These dust bunnies love to rhyme. Well, except for Bob. Much to the other bunnies’ frustration, Bob can never get the rhythm right. Then he saves everyone from a big, scary monster wielding—gasp!—a broom, and they all breathe a sigh of relief. But can Bob save them from the big, scary monster’s next attack? Vrrrrrroooommm...

Building Fluency through Reader's Theater: Nursery Rhymes Kit

Building Fluency through Reader's Theater: Nursery Rhymes Kit
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-09-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781433315770

Make nursery rhymes come to life with these lively, colorful scripts! These stories are based on classic nursery rhymes that children know and love! Young readers will enjoy building fluency through performance. This kit includes eight scripts with leveled roles written at multiple reading levels, making it easy to implement differentiation strategies included in the Teacher's Guide. This feature allows teachers to assign roles to students in a way that best accommodates their individual reading levels. This encourages all students to participate and engage in the same activity, regardless of their current reading ability. All readers can gain confidence and feel successful! By performing these stories together, students will practice important skills like interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures. Each script also includes a poem and song to give children additional fluency practice. All of these scripts give students the tools they need to confidently practice repeating reading and performance, making it the perfect resource for a classroom of varied readers! Building Fluency through Reader's Theater: Nursery Rhymes kit includes: 8 scripts, 6 copies each, 16-24 pages per book in print and digital formats; a Teacher's Guide; poems and songs in digital and transparency formats; and professionally recorded audio of scripts, songs, and poems.

Mother Goose Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers

Mother Goose Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers
Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2007-05-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313094799

Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers. The book offers plays based on well-known rhymes, complete with presentation and instructional follow up suggestions. The author also offers staging diagrams that enable teachers to use each script with entire classrooms of students, and he includes lists of further teaching resources for each play as well. Reading levels are based on accepted readability formulas. Several of the scripts feature simultaneous Spanish translations—a real plus for ELL programs. An introductory chapter discusses the educational value of using readers theatre with young readers and ELL students. Grades 1 and 2.

Learning with Readers Theatre

Learning with Readers Theatre
Author: Neill Dixon
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781895411805

Designed to provide practical strategies, innovative ideas, and adaptable examples of holistic teaching in the elementary classrooms.

Story Vines and Readers Theatre

Story Vines and Readers Theatre
Author: Marlene McKay
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553793188

Story Vines and Readers Theatre shows you "the what" and "the how" of using both story vines and Readers Theatre in your classroom. These two learning tools engage students in meaningful reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing, and cooperation. Each is an invaluable tool for teaching all learners—from the most proficient to the struggling—the skills and strategies they will need to succeed in language arts. This easy-to-use handbook provides you with: a model for teaching assessment tips and hints useful materials recommended by classroom teachers classroom examples and much more!

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0313094721

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre contains fifty, reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read. These patterned scripts based on nursery rhymes, poetry and other fun things to read are grouped into traditional preschool and kindergarten curricular groupings. Reading level based on the Flesch-Kincaid scale will be 0.0. Kids will learn to read by hearing and repeating and seeing the patterns. The authors will include information about props, staging and how to introduce the concept of reading together to these very young children.

Multi-Grade Readers Theatre

Multi-Grade Readers Theatre
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-05-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1591588219

36 readers theatre scripts use authors and illustrators to awaken student imaginations. This book of 36 readers theatre scripts (one for each week of the school year) concentrates on scripts written at multiple reading levels with a large number of parts—including choral reading parts—that enable the entire class to participate. The first 18 scripts are written for 1st-3rd grade reading levels and feature giants of kids literature like Margaret Wise Brown, James Marshall, Bill Martin Jr., Bill Peet, and Beatrix Potter. The second 18 scripts are written for 2nd-4th grade reading levels to allow for growth throughout the school year. This group of plays introduces students to Stan Berenstain, Arnold Lobel, Shel Silverstein, and Tasha Tudor, among others. Carefully designed to meet the needs of students of various reading levels, the scripts are also ideal for use with remedial readers. Grades 2-5