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Learn all about world myths while building fluency by performing the stories in these colorful scripts! The eight leveled scripts included in this kit each tell a lively story that makes repeated reading an engaging task for students! Each script includes six leveled roles written at multiple reading levels, making it easy to implement differentiation and English language learner strategies detailed in the Teacher's Guide. This feature allows teachers to accommodate students' individual reading levels by assigning appropriately leveled roles. All students can participate and engage in the same activity, feeling confident and successful, regardless of their current reading ability! By performing these stories together, students will practice other important skills, including interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures while storytelling. Each script also includes a poem and song to give children additional fluency practice. All of these colorful 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: World Myths 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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