C. Participate in oral sharing

1. journals
2. personal message
3. choral reading
4. dramatizations

Choral Poetry
Experiment with different types of choral reading.

Say It With Feeling!
By using work, text, and character clues, children can practice reading dialogue with appropriate expression.

Deeper Reading Response
A Template for Teachers.  This lesson details the five expressive and performative engagements for responding to text.

Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
Uses Bill Martin picture books to participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater.
 

The Importance of Using Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction:  Scroll down for information on choral reading and reader's theater .

Reader’s Theater - The Creative Dramatics Cookbook:  Recipes for Playmaking

ZOOM:  Short, easy plays

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Understand and respond to one-step directions when supported visually; D: Understand and respond to one-to-two step directions when supported visually and with high-frequency words; E: Understand and respond to one-to-two-step directions.
E/B: Express thoughts pictorially, with nonverbal gestures, and possibly simple high-frequency words, spoken words and phrases; D: Express thoughts and opinions with clear words and phrases; E: Express thoughts and opinions with clear and nearly accurate words, phrases, and sentences.
E/B: Express stories sequentially using pictures, nonverbal gestures, simple high-frequency words and possibly some spoken words or phrases; D: Express stories sequentially using pictures and spoken words and phrases; E: Express stories sequentially using pictures and clear and nearly accurate spoken words, phrases, and sentences.
E/B: Describe people, places, and things with simple words or phrases; D: Describe people, places, and things with words and phrases; E: Describe people, places, and things with clear and nearly accurate words, phrases, and sentences.
E/B: Recite a simple poem or song; D: Recite short poems, stories, and songs; E: Recite short poems, rhymes, stories, and songs.
 

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