Help students gain confidence and build fluency using Act It Out with Readers' Theater for grades K–1. This 112-page book includes nine cross-curricular plays and leveled roles that allow for differentiation. Approved by the National Reading Panel as an ideal way to promote fluency, this engaging resource also includes instructions for performing and critiquing, teacher pages and helpful hints, and staging, costume, and prop suggestions. For complete classroom support, the book provides instructions for connecting the topic of each play to other curriculum areas, comprehension pages, and answer keys. This book aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.
Jan Brett's beloved character Hedgie stars in this charming story about a little Tomten who gets tired of porridge for breakfast and starts stealing Henny's eggs. But Henny wants a brood of chicks and she needs her eggs. With the help of clever Hedgie, she substitutes an acorn, a strawberry, a mushroom and finally a potato in her nest. But nothing stops that Tomten until the little hedgehog hides in Henny's nest: when the Tomten reaches in to get his morning treat, all he gets is a handful of prickles. He runs home for porridge and never comes back again! Intricate needlepoint patterns of Scandinavian designs frame the characters reacting from the borders in this beautiful picture book set in Denmark.
Motivate your students with reading practice for performance and improve reading fluency with these easy-to implement reader's theater scripts. Includes 12 original leveled scripts and graphic organizers.A Teacher Resource CD is provided, which includes scripts, PDFs and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp + CD.
Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives practical how-to tips on how to tell a story, and write and stage a Reader's Theater script that gets children involved with creative drama. Reader's theater teaches children how to become better listeners, enriches their thinking skills, and encourages their response to literature. Included are ideas on using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants and nonsense rhymes, and a reader's theater script. Also included in this handbook are 400 plus annotated children's books every storyteller should know, 100 great titles for creative drama and reader's theatre and professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama and reader's theater. Grades PreK-6. Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives personal and practical how-to tips on how to learn and tell a story, how to act out a story using creative drama, and how to write and stage a Reader's Theater script. All are guaranteed to get your children listening, thinking, reading, loving, and living stories with comprehension, fluency, expression, and joy. Once Upon a Time pulls together a wealth of ideas, activities, and strategies for using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes. Also included in this handbook are the texts of 10 of Judy's favorite stories you can read today and tell tomorrow; a songbook of songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes; and a Reader's Theater script. You'll also find annotated bibliographies: 400+ children's books every storyteller should know; 100+ great children's books to use for creative drama and Reader's Theater; professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater; and a title and author index. Chapters include: ; Getting Started with Storytelling ; Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense ; Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow ; 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know ; Getting Started with Creative Drama and Reader's Theater ; 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and/or Reader's Theater
Motivate your students with reading practice for performance and improve reading fluency with these easy-to implement reader's theater scripts. Includes 12 original leveled scripts and graphic organizers. The included ZIP file contains scripts, PDFs and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp .
Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library. Putting the many facets of the media specialist's professional life into the context of a flexibly scheduled, collaboratively planned teaching program, the book offers simple strategies for effecting positive change. It covers such topics as the librarian's role as teacher, programming, assessment, collection development, facilities, technology, the library budget, support staff, and public relations. Written for the school library media specialist who has or plans to have a library that conforms to today's vision of an effective school library media program, this book places the library media center at the heart of the school's educational program and shows how to position the library as the catalyst for school reform.
Motivate your students with reading practice for performance and improve reading fluency with these easy-to implement reader's theater scripts. Includes 12 original leveled scripts and graphic organizers.A Teacher Resource CD is provided, which includes scripts, PDFs and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp + CD.
