Playbooks

Reader's theater is reading a story aloud, like a play, without memorization, props or a stage. Students are each assigned a character role and read their part with expression, meaning and enthusiasm. It's finest done in tiny non-threatening groups of approximately 6 students so students can become practiced at their roles prior to standing in front of a group or audience. Repeated readings in multi-leveled tiny groups (high, medium, and low readers together) supply the practice of Repeated Guided Oral Reading which is the only proven method of building reading fluency.