Readers Theatre: A Shared Reading Celebration

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Readers TheatreA Shared Reading Celebration!
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Warming Up The Voice

• Breathing and humming
• Yawning and stretching
• Vowels and consonants
• Tongue twisters

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What Is Readers Theatre?

• Readers Theatre involves children in oral
  reading through reading parts in scripts. Unlike
  traditional theatre, the emphasis is mainly on
  oral expression of the part.
• Neill Dixon, Anne Davies, Colleen Politano,
• Learning with Readers Theatre, 1996

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What Is Readers Theatre? (contd)

• Readers Theatre is theatre of the imagination.
  It involves children in understanding their
  world, creating their own scripts, reading aloud,
  performing with a purpose, and bringing enjoyment
  to both themselves and their audiences.
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  Neill Dixon, Anne Davies,
  Colleen Politano,
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  Learning with Readers Theatre,
  1996

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Why Readers Theatre?

• Readers Theatre
• provides a Real purpose and context for reading
• makes reading an Event, a celebration that can be
  shared with an Audience
• enhances student learning by Doing
• promotes a learning Environment that is social,
  active, creative and supports risk takingFUN!
• involves Rehearsal students have multiple
  opportunities to practise their reading and
  speaking
• improves literacy Skills.

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Readers Theatre and Boys

• Boys often enjoy working with readers theatre
  scripts, which allow them to feel like active
  participants in a story.
• p.22

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Readers Theatre Step by Step

• Immerse students in the Readers Theatre text
  form.
• Select an engaging story or script.
• Read the story aloud (or a portion of the story).
• Identify and highlight different character
  voices.
• Read aloud to make final edits.
• Adapt the story to script form.
• Assign roles and rehearse!
• Perform for an audience.
• Reflect on your experience.