Transcript Readers Theater

Readers Theater
Readers Theater
Intrigue and excitement!
What is Readers Theater?
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Used as an after reading activity, Readers Theater
offers an engaging opportunity as a cooperative or
shared reading of a piece of literature.
This literature can include a story, a poem, a script,
or even a son
This is an activity designed to build fluency and
motivation
This activity is designed for two or more readers.
Even if the piece is scripted only for a few readers
more may participate by making one of the characters
a chorus.
What is the process?
Script
 Parts
 Model reading
 Guided reading
 Independent practice
 Perform
 repeat
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Why use Readers Theatre?
Reader's theater is often defined by
what it is not -- no memorizing, no
props, no costumes, no sets; readers’
theatre is a performance script that
the students will act out or read.
 Readers’ theatre allows the student to
interpret the text, put their own voices,
expression and essentially become the
character that they are portraying.
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Why use Readers Theatre?
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Besides being a change of pace from the
traditional way it also helps students to
increase fluency and comprehension as
well as offering a different context in
which students are exposed to texts
focusing on poetry, science, social
studies, or other content-related topics
The BFG
Roald Dahl
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1982
now…
 It’s
your turn!
 Introducing all of you…..
references
Braun, W. and Branun, C. 1996. A Readers Theater Treasury of Stories.
Portage press, Winnepeg Canada.
 Literacy Connection. 2010. reader’s Theater. Literacy connection.
Retrieved from
http://www.literacyconnections.com/readerstheater.php
 Prescott, J. The Power of Reader's Theater;An easy way to make
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dramatic changes in kids' fluency, writing, listening, and social skills.
Teachers scholastic retrieved from
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/readerstheater.ht
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 Roald Dahl(2007) The BFG: A Set of Plays. Puffin, New York. New
York.(P27-35)
 Roald Dahl's BFG (video) retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-zzS_3g7Q&feature=fvw