This reader's theater script builds fluency through oral reading. The creative script captures students' interest, so they will want to practice and perform. Included is a fluency lesson and approximate reading levels for the script roles.

Act out the story of Pecos Bill, a rough and tough cowboy from the old West who meets his match, Slue-Foot Sue, a larger-than-life cowgirl with a wild bronco! The roles in this engaging Reader's Theater script match different reading levels, allowing teachers to use differentiation and English language learner strategies to involve and encourage all students, regardless of their reading level. Struggling or proficient, all students can participate in this activity, gaining confidence in their reading fluency and feeling successful! Students will practice interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures while performing this thrilling tale! For additional fluency practice, students can recite the poem and sing the song included at the end of the story. By connecting to popular children's literature in a lively way, this script allows students to actively participate and enjoy reading. This colorful, leveled script is the perfect tool to get all students to participate and enjoy practicing fluency.

Students will act out the story of Pecos Bill, a rough and tough cowboy from the old West who meets his match, Slue-Foot Sue, a larger-than-life cowgirl with a wild bronco! This Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student's current reading level, allowing all students to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. These drama scripts for students are a great way to teach literacy and engage all learners!

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 expicit 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. These resources meet instructional objectives as outlined in the No Child Left BehindAct.

Readers theater is a powerful tool for developing reading fluency. The scripts are designed for a range of reading levels. Students have opportunities to read individually, in pairs, and as a group. The scripts do not require costumes, props, or scenery.

On the day she is born this amazing baby proudly announces she can out-talk, out-grin, out-scream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky. Within a few years Sally is off to the frontier, where she stuns a hungry grizzly bear, makes a lasso out of six rattlesnakes, and is more than a match for the mighty Mike Fink. And when Sally Ann rescues Davy Crockett from a pair of ferocious eagles, even her hornet's-nest bonnet and skunk perfume don't stop him from proposing marriage. You won't find Sally Ann in any history book, but that hasn't kept her from becoming an authentic American frontier legend and the unforgettable heroine of Steven Kellogg's most delightfully rip-roaring tall tale.

This reader's theater script builds fluency through oral reading. The creative script captures students' interest, so they will want to practice and perform. Included is a fluency lesson and approximate reading levels for the script roles.