Education Professional Development
Readers Theatre
A Secondary Approach
- Publisher
- Portage & Main Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2010
- Category
- Professional Development
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553792499
- Publish Date
- May 2010
- List Price
- $29.00
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 7 to 12
- Grade: 2 to 7
Description
Readers Theatre activities are perfect for different learning styles. In addition, students who participate in Readers Theatre show improved standards of oral expression, self-confidence, self-image, and creativity. In Readers Theatre: A Secondary Approach, the author combines new and updated suggestions, ideas, and techniques with basic strategies that can be altered, expanded, and experimented with to provide all students with enriched learning experiences. All of the activities have been successfully used in the classroom. In this resource , you will find: effective ways to incorporate ReadersTheatre into daily lessons ideas for developing original scripts exercises for improving expression ways to incorporate Readers Theatre into any subject area ways to script short stories, poems, novel excerpts, and other material staging suggestions for different forms of Readers Theatre evaluation ideas reproducible scripts from lessons, as well as bonus scripts from classic authors, with staging suggestions evaluation tools
effective ways to incorporate ReadersTheatre into daily lessons
ideas for developing original scripts
exercises for improving expression
ways to incorporate Readers Theatre into
any subject area
ways to script short stories, poems, novel excerpts, and other material
staging suggestions for different forms of Readers Theatre
evaluation ideas
reproducible scripts from lessons, as well as bonus scripts from classic authors, with staging suggestions
evaluation tools
About the author
Neill Dixon, B.ED.(SEC), MA is a retired school principal and has taught in schools in both New Zealand and British Columbia. Since retiring he has presented workshops in Readers Theatre to teachers and lectured at numerous universities throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe. He was on the faculty of the Institute for Readers Theatre when it was headquartered in San Diego. During some of his spare time Neill works in Victoria as a marshal at the Cordova Bay Golf Club and gives guided tours on the Victoria Harbour ferries.