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Readers Theater for Building Fluency: Strategies and Scripts for Making the Most of This Highly Effective, Motivating, and Research-Based Approach to Oral Reading (Teaching Strategies, Grades 3-6)

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Dr. Jo Worthy convincingly explains why reader's theater is so successful in building fluency. This book is a great resource for educators who want to make reading, and fluency development in particular, fun and purposeful. Practical step-by-step instructions on how to guide students through reader's theater, photos of students rehearsing and performing theater scripts, and the eight ready-to-go scripts in the appendix will help teachers get started tomorrow with reader's theater!

This is a fine introduction to reader's theater in the classroom, with detailed instructions, plus the theory behind how and why it works -- all in a brief, lively, easy-to-read presentation.

My dyslexic daughter's 3rd grade teacher uses this book with the whole class and the children really love it. They are motivated to learn their lines and really enjoy oral reading in groups. These exercises have helped enormously in increasing my daughter's fluency.