Read the book several times, offering instructional support for new vocabulary, and for understanding the different characters.
Provide lots of opportunities for practice. Students do not memorize their parts they always read from their scripts. Start slowly so students feel comfortable in the performance mode.
Shy children may blossom, and students develop a strong sense of community. “Magic” occurs when the students get to be on stage - even if that stage is the floor of the classroom or library.
Have her simply read the script aloud and act it out. And, there’s opportunity for practice, so struggling readers are not put on the spot. There is no risk in reader’s theater, because no memorization is required. Some students are hams - they just don’t know it until they get up in front of the group. “ They love hamming it up and making costumes and scenery too.” “ I love watching my English language learners gain more fluency and confidence as they perform the Hoopoe Books Reader’s Theaters,” says educator and I Have a Dream volunteer, Leanne Lockhart. Performing reader’s theater without props allows the readers to learn that the inflection in their voices needs to provide much of the drama of the story. Reader’s theater is a wonderful technique for helping readers learn to read aloud with expression and joy. Students also practice reading with expression when they take on the roles in the script. The value of reader’s theater is increased when used as a strategy for increasing understanding of what is being read. Students don’t even realize they are re-reading as they practice the script. Re-reading is a key factor in developing fluency, which is necessary for comprehension. Hoopoe Books Reader’s Theater scripts can be used as early as first-grade. Reader’s theater motivates reluctant readers and English language learners, and provides fluent readers the opportunity to explore genre and characterization. Reader’s theater gives students an authentic reason to read aloud. Its goal is to enhance students’ reading skills and confidence by having them practice reading with a purpose. Reader’s theater is a strategy that combines reading (and re-reading) practice and performing. Students can perform the scripts with or without costumes or props. In reader’s theater, students “perform” by reading the Hoopoe books’ scripts created for this purpose. Reader’s theater is a way to involve students in reading aloud. Reader’s theater offers an entertaining and engaging means of improving fluency through repetition, reading with expression, and enhancing comprehension. The reader’s theater strategy combines students’ desire to perform with their need for oral reading practice. 
Giving Students a Reason to Read, and Re-Read, Aloudĭownload the printable one-act dramatic play here.ĭownload the reading skills assessment chart here.
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