Spotlight on English Reader's Theater

Improve your emerging and developing readers' fluency and literacy skills through theater and role-play!

By combining a reading selection with elements of performance, Reader's Theater appeals to ELLs' sense of play-sparking their interest and encouraging them to engage with the text!

• Script incorporates narration, character dialogue, and stage directions in scenes designed to be read aloud.
• Students "act out" the script by reading aloud, following the teacher's modeling, in order to tell the story fluently and expressively.
• Students practice and reinforce their oral reading and reading comprehension skills to convey the plot points, characterizations, and emotions of the story.
• Songs and music help engage students and develop oral fluency!

Ideal literacy intervention resource for developing readers, such as ELLs!