A Comprehensive Guide to Readers Theatre

Enhancing Fluency and Comprehension in Middle School and Beyond

Alison Black and Anna M. Stave

With the current education climate so focused on accountability, you need to ensure that your teaching practices are supported by today’s content-specific standards. To meet this need, A Comprehensive Guide to Readers Theatre shows you not only how to implement Readers Theatre in your classroom but also how to use it to meet current literacy standards.

This practical, comprehensive guide goes well beyond the scope of typical “how-to” books on Readers Theatre and extends the applicability of this instructional method with the following special features:

Fun and easy-to-use supplementary activities

Reproducible assessment tools

Hands-on demonstrations of script creation using real literature-based scripts

Performance schedules you can tailor to your classroom’s specific needs

Matrixes illustrating how Readers Theatre meets literacy standards

Although the descriptions of script creation and performance are geared toward the middle school classroom, the authors also show you how to easily adapt Readers Theatre in the elementary or high school classroom and with struggling readers, gifted students, and English-language learners.

An IRA Book Club selection, May 2007

© 2007 | 248 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-590-0

Also of interest:

Weaving Through Words

Dramatizing the Content With Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre, Grades 6–12