Building fluency through Reader's theater [kit] : folk and fairy tales.

Title:

Summary:

"Building fluency through Reader's Theater is a valuable resource for improving fluency with repeated readings that fully engage students. The scripts feature roles written at multiple reading levels and are effective in enhancing content-area literacy and fluency skills through purposeful practice amnd performance"--Container.

Other Title:

Reader's theater

Folk and fairy tales

Year Published:

2009

Physical Description:

1 teacher's guide (128 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM), 48 scripts (6 copies of 8 different scripts), 19 overhead transparencies (color ; 28 cm), 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) ; in container 29 x 38 x 12 cm

Note:

Title from container.

Teacher's guide written by Jamey Acosta.

Performance CDs contain readings of the fables in the script booklets and instrumental versions of songs.

Contents:

Transparencies include poems and songs and tips for performing Reader's Theater. Poems : This little piggy / Traditional ; Pat-a-cake / Traditional ; Boys and girls come out to play / Traditional ; Old King Cole / Traditional ; Jack Sprat / Traditional ; I had a little hen / Traditional ; Sing a song of sixpence / Traditional -- Pease porridge hot / Traditional -- Songs : Skip to my Lou / Traditional ; The camptown races / Stephen Foster ; Over the river and through the woods / Lydia Maria Child ; Pop! goes the weasel / Traditional ; London Bridge / Traditional ; Shortnin' bread / Traditional ; Lavender's blue / Traditional ; The bear went over the mountain / Traditional --Curtain time.

Scripts of fables include : The three little pigs / Dona Herweck Rice -- Goldilocks and the three bears / Diana Herweck -- The gingerbread man / Dona Herweck Rice -- Little Red Riding Hood / Dona Herweck Rice -- The three billy goats gruff / Dona Herweck Rice -- Hansel and Gretel / Dona Herweck Rice -- The emperor's new clothes / Dona Herweck Rice -- The little red hen / Dona Herweck Rice.

Subject:

Activity programs in education.

Reading (Elementary)

Fairy tales.

Folklore.

Songs -- United States.

American poetry.

Added Author:

Acosta, Jamey.

Rice, Dona Herweck. The three little pigs.

Herweck, Diana. Goldilocks and the three bears.

Rice, Dona Herweck. The gingerbread man.