Ancient Civilizations Reader's Theater

• Grade Level: 5 - 6
• Page Count: 96
• Author: Margaret Allen, Ph.D.
• Item #: 2246
• UPC: 030554022463
• ISBN: 978-1-59198-041-4

Develop Reading Fluency and Text Comprehension Skills

This series of Reader's Theater books provides high-interest scripts featuring everything from amusing fables and fairy tales to inspiring inventors and historical heroes. Each script comes with explicit fluency instruction, a list of key vocabulary, and engaging comprehension activities. Each book describes in simple terms how to direct instruction and coach students as they practice their lines. Each unit can stand alone as fluency instruction or tie in to a related content-area unit.

Reader's Theater is an exciting way to help students improve reading fluency without being too time intensive for the teacher. It requires no props and no additional teaching skills on your part, and it is not difficult to manage. Reader's Theater promotes better reading comprehension because students who have learned to read a passage expressively also come to better understand its meaning.