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Make William Shakespeare's famous plays easy for young readers to understand by having them act out these colorful, leveled scripts! This kit includes eight scripts, each adapted from a Shakespearean play, with 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 thrilling 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: William Shakespeare kit includes: 8 scripts, 6 copies each, 24-32 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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