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Fluency
- About Fluency
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Children’s Books to use in lesson plans
- Some Helpful Web sites
- Reader’s Theater Books
Reader’s Theater:
Bauer, C.F. (1987). Presenting Reader’s Theater: Plays and Poems to Read Aloud. New York: H.W. Wilson.
There is some background information of reader’s theater along with several plays and poems for children. (372.6 Bau)
Fredericks, A.D. (2003). Frantic Frogs and other Frankly Fractured Folktales for Reader’s Theatre. Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press.
A collection of satires based on popular fairy tales for kids to read out loud. This book includes tips on planning lessons with reader’s theater. (808.5 Fre)
Fredericks, A.D. (2001). Reader’s Theatre for American History. Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press.
This book brings history to life by providing students with stories from American history that the students act out using reader’s theater. The author has stories from different events in American history that start with Pre-Columbian Native Americans and goes to the present. (808.5 Fre)
Gustafson, C. (2002). Acting Out: Reader’s Theatre Across the Curriculum. Worthington, OH: Linworth Pub.
This is a book of plays divided in five sections: language arts, social studies, science, math, and information literacy. (808.5 Gus)
Pfeffinger, C.R. (2003). Character Counts! Promoting Character Education through Reader’s Theatre, Grades 2-5. Portsmouth, N.H.: Teacher Ideas Press.
This book contains background information on reader’s theater along with several plays. (370.11 Pfe)
Sloyer, S. (2003). From the Page to the Stage: The Educator’s Complete Guide to Reader’s Theatre. Portsmouth, N.H.: Teacher Ideas Press.
This book contains background information on reader’s theater along with several plays. (808.5 Slo)
Wolfman, J. (2004). How and Why Stories for Reader’s Theatre. Portsmouth, N.H.: Teacher Ideas Press.
The plays used for this reader’s theater book are based on Native American folktales. (812.6 Wol)
Quotes:
Fluency derives from the reader’s ability not just to decode or identify individual words but also to quickly process larger language units.
1 (Shoenbach, Greenleaf, Cziko & Hurwitz, 1999, p. 19)
Fluency is the ability to orally and silently read text smoothly and with appropriate phrasing and intonation. We often refer to it as “reading like you talk.”
2 (Duffy, G. A., 2003, p.36)
2 Duffy, G.A. (2003). Explaining Reading: A Resource for teaching concepts, skills, and strategies. New York: Guilford Press.
1 Shoenbach,R.; Greenleaf, C.; Cziko, C.; & Hurwitz, L. (1999). Reading for understanding: A Guide to improving reading in middle and high school classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.