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Act out classic American tall tales and legends with this set of engaging Reader's Theater scripts! From Davy Crockett to Paul Bunyan, students can perform the stories of all sorts of fascinating, legendary characters. The roles in each script represEach 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. Students build fluency and oral language skills through authentic repeated readings of scripts.
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. Lesson plans include additional focus on comprehension strategies, word work, and embedded literacy links to content-area topics.
Second language support activities, found throughout every lesson, provide the necessary support and scaffolding that teachers need to provide effective instruction to English language learners in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Professionally recorded scripts, poems, and songs promote choral reading and allow students to hear the rhythm and expression that define fluency.