Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers: [Paperback]

Suzanne I. Barchers (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1563081369 | ISBN-13: 978-1563081361 | Publication Date: March 15, 1993

Build reading skills with these readers theatre scripts of charming folktales and fables from around the world. Each of the 20 reproducible scripts has been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and grouped into first, second, or third grade readability levels. The author includes specific suggestions for presentation, props, and delivery, plus a book list of related illustrated books. Sample Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk (English) The Lion and the Mouse (Greek) The Old Woman and Her Pig (English) The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Scandinavian) The Tortoise and the Hare (Greek) Baba Yaga (Russian) Little Red Riding Hood (German) The Ugly Duckling (Danish).

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About the Author

SUZANNE I. BARCHERS, Ed.D., is Managing Editor of Read and Know Your World Extra magazines, Weekly Reader publications. The author of numerous books, she has 15 years of experience as a teacher and administrator and has taught education classes at the college level.

Product Details

• Paperback: 97 pages
• Publisher: Teacher Ideas Press (March 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563081369
• ISBN-13: 978-1563081361
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #749,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Hit For Teaching Comprehension, Fluency, Genre Study, March 4, 2001

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Victoria Dallas-Stephenson (Bronx, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers: (Paperback)

I just started using this book in my third grade class. My kids are a mix of struggling readers, second language learners, and not-quite-fluent readers. The children love to put on puppet shows,which I encourage because they are re-reading, learning to read as if they are speaking, picking up great vocabulary, and presenting what they've learned in a way they and their audience enjoy. Did this book hit the spot! We started with one of the plays, just having the children assign major character's parts and choral read the rest. The kids will be using the elements taught by the scripts in this book to write their own plays, based on the stories they have collected in their writing journals. In the coming weeks, kids will have demonstrated their memoir writing, animal research,etc, as plays. In addition to that, the scripts are based on fables and folktales third graders are familiar with, and help them to meet the NYS standards by reading and writing about them.