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Act out lively stories with the colorful scripts included in this kit to make repeated reading and building fluency engaging tasks for your fifth and sixth graders! This kit includes eight scripts with roles written at various reading levels, making it easy to implement differentiation and English language learner strategies included in the Teacher's Guide. These strategies allow teachers to assign roles to their students in the way that best accommodates individual reading levels, encouraging all students to participate and engage in the same activity, regardless of their current reading level. All readers can feel successful and gain confidence in their reading skills! While performing together, students will also practice important 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: Grades 5-6 kit includes: 8 scripts, 6 copies each, 20-24 pages per book; a Teacher's Guide; and poems and songs.
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.
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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