Reader’s Theater – May 6th, 2015
Presenters : Manon Hamel and Elizabeth Alloul

Reader’s Theater is a fun, non-threatening way to further develop fluency and encourage your students to read.  This dynamic web event will explore the benefits of using this style of theater and explain how to implement it in your classroom.  It will explore scripts, explain how to prepare students and offer many resources. Reader’s Theater is the first of a series of Intensive Talks! web events, which will be presented for Intensive ESL teachers.


Resource list for Reader’s Theater

1. NWT How-To-Kit
http://www.nwtliteracy.ca/resources/famlit/howtokit/theatre/theatre.pdf

2. Reader’s Theater Scripts and Plays
http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm

3. Aaron Shepard’s Reader’s Theater Page
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/index.html
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/sheets.html

4. Around the Water Cycle–A Reader’s Theater
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/400.html