Build fluency through performance reading with these colorful scripts! The scripts included in this kit make repeated reading and building fluency an engaging task for students by having them act out lively stories! This kit includes eight scripts with roles written at multiple reading levels, making it easy to implement differentiation strategies. 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.
By performing these stories together, students will practice 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: Expanding and Preserving the Union Kit includes:
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. Students build fluency and oral language skills through authentic repeated readings of scripts.
Lewis and Clark 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 11556 Act out the story of two captains and a Shoshone Indian who travel across the Rocky Mountains! Differentiated roles allow teachers to involve all students in this activity, encouraging everyone to perform and confidently build reading fluency! |
Remember the Alamo 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11557 Uncover the history of the Battle of the Alamo in this script! Teachers can get all students involved by assigning leveled roles to specifically accommodate all reading levels. All students can improve fluency and feel successful with this script! |
Narcissa Whitman and the Westward Movement 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11558 Two missionaries set out to teach Christianity to Native Americans, but face violent resistance. In this script, students can act out differentiated roles based on their current reading levels. Everyone can perform and successfully build fluency! |
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce 6-Pack withAudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 11559 Build fluency while acting out this story of a battle between the Nez Perce Indians and the U.S. cavalry. Differentiated roles support readers of all levels, allowing teachers to get everyone performing, building fluency, and feeling successful. |
The Sojourner Truth Story 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11560 Build fluency while acting out the inspiring story of Sojourner Truth, a slave who overcame many hardships. Differentiated roles support readers of all levels, allowing teachers to get everyone performing, building fluency, and feeling successful. |
Causes of the Civil War 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11561 In this script, act out the story of Abolitionist John Brown's attempt to take over the United States arsenal! Differentiated roles allow teachers to accommodate a range of reading levels, so all students can feel successful while building fluency! |
Lewis and Clark 6-Pack with Audio |
Remember the Alamo 6-Pack with Audio |
Narcissa Whitman and the Westward Movement 6-Pack with Audio |
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce 6-Pack withAudio |
The Sojourner Truth Story 6-Pack with Audio |
Causes of the Civil War 6-Pack with Audio |
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Heroism at Marye's Heights 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11562 Act out the story of a heroic Confederate soldier who saved many Union Soldiers during the Battle of Fredericksburg! Differentiated roles allow teachers to accommodate all readers, encouraging everyone to successfully build fluency while performing! |
Reconstruction 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11563 All readers can build fluency by acting out this story about a former slave family determined to succeed after the Civil War. Six differentiated roles match varying reading levels and allow all students to participate and feel successful. |
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Reconstruction 6-Pack with Audio |
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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.
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