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Turn your classroom into a readers' theater with this delightful collection of short, simple plays on themes kids adore-pets, dinosaurs, space, losing a tooth, birthday parties, making new friends, going to school, and many more. These lively plays include adorable illustrations that support the text as well as rhymes, repition, and predictable language to help bolster young children's reading and oral language skills. Comes complete with teaching strategies and cross-curricular extensions. For use with Grades K-1.
Teach key science concepts and build reading fluency with these engaging and easy-to-read plays on animals, habitats, life cycles, health and human body, plants and seeds, weather, and more. Reproducible plays include rhyme, repetition, and predictable language to help young learners build reading confidence. Extension activities teach and reinforce key concepts and vocabulary. For use with Grades K�2.
Dozens and dozens of ready-to-use activities give kids fun-filled phonics practice and a big boost on the road to becoming successful readers and writers. Topics include alphabet recognition, initial and final consonants, consonant blends, short and long vowels, and rhymes and word families. Activities are effective for RTI and English language learners. Flexible and easy to use for independent work, day starters or homework. For use with Grades K2."
These rib-tickling word family plays will delight children and help them become confident, fluent readers. Each play gives children plenty of practice reading a group of words from the same word family--words that share the same sound and spelling pattern. Learning to recognize these families of words helps children decode with ease so they can focus on comprehension. Easy-to-read text in large type builds reading confidence! Each play targets a key phonogram Research shows that recognizing and using word families helps children develop phonemic awareness of rhyming words, increase sight word vocabulary, and improve decoding & spelling skills Engaging plays invite repeated readings that help boost fluency skills such as reading rate, automaticity, and expression Reinforces vocabulary and listening skills Perfect for Readers Theater
Helps build the oral fluency of even the most reluctant readers. High-interest plays that provide the repeated practice students need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression. Includes parts at different reading levels, so every student in the class can have a chance to participate. Includes background and suggestions for building fluency and comprehension.
These easy-to-read plays feature rhyme, repetition, and predictable language to help children build vocabulary and become confident, fluent readers. Includes tips for building fluency, a teacher rubric, a student self-assessment checklist, and extension activities.Reading adn rehearsing plays gives children the repeated practice they need to build reading confidence and fluency.Perfect for partner-, small group-, and whole class reading.Great for Readers Theatre.Helps meet language arts standards.Plays based on Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three bears, The Gingerbread Man, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and more!
This 5-book set of Reader's Theater scripts allows students to become a part of their favorite fairy tales! Students will act out these terrific tales and build fluency skills through practice and performance. Each script includes differentiated roles that allow all students to participate, regardless of their current reading level. This set includes: Goldilocks and the Three Bears; The Three Little Pigs; Little Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Gretel; The Gingerbread Man. (GRL ranges A-I).
