Contains fourteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in third and fourth graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.

Contains fourteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in third and fourth graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.

These engaging short plays offer a purposeful and powerful way to encourage the repeated reading students need to build oral fluency. Students are motivated to read and practice their lines so they can perform at their very best. This rehearsal time encourages them to experiment with aspects of fluent reading, such as phrasing, pacing, and expression. Includes research-based mini-lessons, strategies, teaching ideas, and rubrics and checklists. For use with Grades 5–6.

Short, leveled fiction and nonfiction plays with research-based strategies to help students build word recognition, oral fluency, and comprehension.

Plays are a great way to give students the repeated reading practice they need to become fluent readers. Written at students independent reading level, these whimsical folk and fairy tale plays will capture students interest and motivate them to read and practice their lines, helping them to improve automaticity, reading rate, expression, and phrasing. Includes tips for building fluency, a teacher rubric, a student self-assessment checklist, and background information, discussion questions, and extension activities for each play. For use with Grades 23."