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Act out all sorts of grade-appropriate, cross-curricular stories with your Spanish-speaking first and second graders! This kit includes eight scripts with leveled roles that have been translated into Spanish and have been written at multiple reading levels, supporting differentiation strategies detailed in the Teacher's Guide. This allows teachers to specifically assign roles to students based on their individual reading levels, enabling all students to participate and engage in the activity. Your readers, whether they are struggling or proficient, can feel successful with this activity and gain confidence while building their reading fluency. By performing together, students will build fluency and improve many other fundamental skills, including interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures. At the end of the story, each script includes a related poem and song, giving children additional fluency practice. These colorful, leveled scripts will engage all students through active participation, giving students the tools they need to thrive as they practice repeated reading and performance. Building Fluency through Reader's Theater: Niveles 1-2 (Grades 1-2) 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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