Make repeated reading and building fluency an engaging task for your first and second graders by having them act out stories with these colorful, leveled scripts! This kit includes eight scripts with leveled roles written at multiple reading levels, supporting differentiation strategies that are detailed in the Teacher's Guide. This feature allows teachers to assign specific roles to students, accommodating individual reading levels and encouraging all students to participate and engage in the activity, regardless of their current reading ability. All readers can feel successful and gain confidence!
By performing together, students will build fluency and improve many other fundamental skills, including interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures. A poem and song are included at the end of the story to give children additional fluency practice. These colorful, exciting scripts will engage all students and give them the tools they need to confidently practice repeating reading and performance.
Building Fluency through Reader's Theater: Grades 1-2 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.
![]() RT: Lucky the Firehouse Dog 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10303 Act out the story of a firehouse dog in this leveled script! Differentiated roles allow teachers to involve students of all reading levels in this activity, encouraging everyone to perform and feel successful while building fluency! |
![]() RT: Helping Hands 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10304 Build fluency while acting out this story of family and friends who help a mother who breaks her leg! Differentiated roles support readers of all levels, allowing teachers to get everyone involved, performing, building fluency, and feeling successful. |
![]() RT: Money Counts 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10305 Engage all students by acting out this leveled script about two children who earn and save money! Assign differentiated roles based on students' individual reading capabilities, so all students can perform, build fluency, and feel successful! |
![]() RT: Web of Beauty 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10306 Act out the story of three friends finding patterns all around them in this leveled script! Differentiated roles allow teachers to accommodate a range of reading levels, so all students can feel successful while building fluency! |
![]() RT: Poetry? Yuck! 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10307 In this leveled script, act out the story of two reluctant boys who have to write poems for school! Assign differentiated roles to students based on their current reading level, allowing everyone to perform, build fluency, and feel successful. |
![]() RT: Moving Forward 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10308 Act out the story of Sophia's move to a new town in this dynamic 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! |
RT: Lucky the Firehouse Dog 6-Pack with Audio |
RT: Helping Hands 6-Pack with Audio |
RT: Money Counts 6-Pack with Audio |
RT: Web of Beauty 6-Pack with Audio |
RT: Poetry? Yuck! 6-Pack with Audio |
RT: Moving Forward 6-Pack with Audio |
Level: $46.54 |
Level: $46.54 |
Level: $46.54 |
Level: $46.54 |
Level: $46.54 |
Level: $46.54 |
Item Number: 10303 |
Item Number: 10304 |
Item Number: 10305 |
Item Number: 10306 |
Item Number: 10307 |
Item Number: 10308 |
![]() RT: A Garden in the City 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10309 All readers can build fluency by acting out this leveled script! This story about a garden in the city includes six differentiated roles, allowing students at varying reading levels to all participate and feel successful. |
![]() RT: Amazing Animals 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $46.54 Grade: 1-2 Item Number: 10310 Act out the story of Brian, a boy who loves amazing animals! This charming reader includes six differentiated roles, allowing teachers to accommodate different reading levels. All readers will feel confident and successful while building fluency. |
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RT: A Garden in the City 6-Pack with Audio |
RT: Amazing Animals 6-Pack with Audio |
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Level: $46.54 |
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Item Number: 10309 |
Item Number: 10310 |
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.