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Teach your students about America by having them act out these engaging, patriotic scripts! Performing these stories make repeated reading and building fluency an enjoyable activity for students! This kit includes 8 scripts with roles written at multiple reading levels, making it easy to implement the differentiation strategies included in the Teacher's Guide. This feature allows teachers to assign specific roles to students in a way that best accommodates their individual reading levels, encouraging everyone to participate and engage in the same activity, regardless of their current reading ability. All readers can feel successful and confident while building fluency! By performing these stories together, students will practice other important skills like interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to tell the story. Each script also includes a song and poem to give children additional fluency practice. 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: My Country 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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