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-Students build a love and interest for reading and performing
-Actively engagement and participation

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-Students gain confidence as they master scripts
-Enjoy performing and gives them an authentic purpose

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-Students gain a better understanding of skills and themes by using gestures, group work, and dramatic play

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-Repeated readings give students the opportunity to become expert decoders!

-Readers Theater hits the different areas of fluency: automaticity, accuracy, and prosody (Keehn, 2003; Millin & Rinehart, 1999; Rasinski & Young, 2009

-Requires a critical analysis of plot and characters, resulting in higher level comprehension of text

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-Text Selection: At students instructional level, can level the scripts

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-Discussion: plot, setting, characters, vocabulary

-Assign Roles: Many scripts have leveled roles

-Practice: Allow students to read and practice scripts several times before performing

-Feedback: Provide comments and

-Perform: Invite other classes, parents, record
-Keep scripts in your library center/free time

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-Can be done at all grade levels and can be adapted to fit all students

-Easy to create scripts to meet teachers needs

-Cross-curricular

-Use them in Daily 5 rotations throughout the week

-Have students create their own scripts

-Keep in your library center or as a “free time” activity

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As Defined by Scholastic:

-Readers Theater is readers reading a script adapted from literature, and the audience picturing the action from hearing the script being read aloud.

-It requires no sets, costumes, props, or memorized lines.

-Instead of acting out literature as in a play, the performer’s goal is to read a script aloud effectively, enabling the audience to visualize the action.

-Performers bring the text alive by using voice, facial expressions, and some gestures (Scholastic)

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Houghton Mifflin Readers' Theater is a play-based program where students read aloud and/or perform scripts on social studies topics. Readers' Theater is an easy way to teach your social studies and ELA standards. It builds vocabulary comprehension and fluency and allows ALL students to access the content with multi-leveled scripts.