Readers Theater is a type of active learning, which challenges students to use expressions, experiment with different voices, and utilize a range of emotions while reading from a script. In short, it helps build confidence in both the English language and reading.
This package uses a Readers Theater play to help develop reading fluency and gives you reading strategies that are proven to work. The play was written with a focus on grammar clauses, so students get both reading and grammar practice together. It comes with:
- a 4 character, 5-page script around a mystery theme
- preparation worksheets that introduce the play’s topic
- discussion questions around the topic
- vocabulary words and activities
- grammar activities for practicing clauses.
This play involves 4 characters, plus a narrator, and it enables learners to expand their vocabulary, enhance grammar acquisition, and gain a deeper understanding of the English language. Set up takes about 15-20 minutes before getting into the script. Once rehearsed, the play lasts between 10-20 minutes, depending on staging.
✅ Readers Theater is one of the best reading strategies for building fluency. By experiencing the thrill of performing alongside their peers, your students improve their pronunciation, develop fluent speech, and fine-tune their listening skills. It also gets your students using their creativity to engage with their learning while injecting an element of play into the class.
✅ Readers Theater is incredibly easy to use in any class, and all you will need to set it up is a script, actors, and a location. By combining reading and acting, learners are able to better understand the communicative elements of the English language. Research tells us that fluency in reading comes from repetition, and reading scripts is an ideal way to get students reading something over and over again.
✅ Interested in what makes this Readers Theater Resource standout?
- The script is easy for your ESL and ELLs to understand and relate to.
- Before getting into the script, you’ll be able to set the stage with short discussion questions.
- Grammar acquisition activities that get learners practicing clauses.
- The script was written using clauses, keeping the grammar in context and making it easier to learn organically.
⏩ ⏩ THE DETAILS OF THE PLAY
- Title: The Secret Invention
- Number of Characters: 4
- Number of Scenes: 2
- Cast of Characters:
- Professor Ryszard: A brilliant, reclusive scientist and linguist who has invented the world’s first universal communication device. He is also very secretive and a bit paranoid.
- Lily: A secondary school student who is on summer vacation.
- Max: Lily’s best friend, also a secondary school student.
- Agent Wilson: A government agent who has been tasked with protecting Professor Ryszard and ensuring that his device does not fall into the wrong hands.
- Scenario: Professor Ryszard, a reclusive, brilliant scientist has done it! He has invented a machine that can translate any spoken language into another other spoken language instantaneously. Called the Universal Communication Device, the professor is under strict orders not to share the details with anyone until it is ready. The play opens with the professor tinkering with the device, putting the finishing touches on it. At the same time, Lily and Max, two secondary school students, are on summer vacation and bored out of their minds. Unfortunately, for Professor Ryszard, Max is somewhat of a bad influence and suggest that he and Lily break into the professor’s laboratory and see what they can find.
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This resource includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. The teacher’s guide with notes on readers theater has tips for how to pace the lesson and a set up guide so your students’ final performances are polished and ready for an audience. There is also an answer key for the grammar portion of this lesson.
The grammar worksheets in this readers theater package only include practice activities for clauses. They do not include instructions on how to teach this grammar point. See more resources for practicing grammar clauses here.
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