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Fluency: Connected Text, Readers' Theater ActivityFluency: Connected Text, Readers' Theater Activity
Publisher
Florida Center for Reading Research
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Grade
K - 1st
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2005
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Fluency: Connected Text, Readers' Theater

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Readers' theater is a fun way to get kids reading with expression and improve their fluency! There is a full script here for The Three Bears with five characters to assign.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

tone, literary devices, intonation, reader's theater, reading aloud, reading fluency, goldilocks and the three bears, children's literature, fairy tales

Additional Tags

expression, fluency, intonation, read aloud, readers theater, tone, phrasing, the three bears, rf.2.4, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Split pupils into small groups so everyone can practice at the same time.
  • Highlight the lines for each character before handing out the scripts.
  • Add props 

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires copies

Pros

  • It makes for a great introduction to a school play

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.4 RF.1.4.b

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