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For a Step-by-Step Reader's Theater Implementation
Guide, click here. |
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For an Interactive Over-Acting Warm-up Exercise,
click here.
For Group Expression Exercises, click here.
For a comprehensive series of expression exercises that helps build a "Progression" of involvement and courage for students, click here for Grades K-3 Exercises and here for Grades 3 and up. |
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Our Readability Test determines which Playbook® Reading Level most closely fits a reader's abilities. You have two choices of how to administer the test to students: online or in printed paper format.
To download the Readability Test in PDF, click here.
To download in Excel format, click here. |
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Reading Level Correlation Chart for Role Assignment
In order to assist teachers and facilitate the assigning of roles for Reader's Theater small group reading, Playbooks® Reader's Theater has developed a simplified series of reading levels. To see how Playbook® Reading Stages correlate to other reading level scales, click here to download a printable sheet.
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For a list of "Reading With Expression Reminders" to help train students, click here. |
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We also offer a Reading Behavior Test which helps educators evaluate students' speaking skills and social reading skills, including enunciation, emotion/ expression, helpfulness and respect towards other readers, etc.
Download the Reading Behavior Test evaluation form in PDF format:
Record Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Program scores on separate sheets. (*larger text, more space, easier to read)
Record Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Program scores on one sheet.
Download in Excel format:
Record Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Program scores on separate sheets. (*larger text, more space, easier to read)
Record Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Program scores on one sheet. |
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To download Student Information Sheet in PDF format
for recording student reading levels and read-
aloud preferences, click here.
To download in Excel format, click here. |
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To download Student Questionnaire in PDF format
for learning student read-
aloud preferences, click here. |
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To download Reader's Theater Assessment Student Record Form in PDF format, click here.
To download in Excel format, click here. |
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To download sample Reader's Theater Student Character/Role Assignment Charts in PDF format, click here.
To download in Excel format, click here. |
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For a Grade Level Kit Story Rotation Chart, click here. |
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For an assortment of Performance Award Certificates to reward your students, click here. |
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For a checklist of steps and tools to use in your reader's theater program, click here. |
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For notes summarizing the information provided in our Reader's Theater Workshop, click here. |
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For a Grant Narrative to help you include Reader's Theater in your next round of funding, see the following documents for either After School programs or Title 1/Reading First. |
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AfterSchool Today magazine has featured an article about the benefits of reader's theater, written by
Dianna Cleveland. |
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Supportive Research Information:
For a document summarizing research on Reader's Theater as a form of Repeated Guided Oral Reading, click here. |
