8 Fluency-Boosting Plays With Easy Activities That Teach Key Literary Elements
Author: Mack Lewis
By Mack Lewis
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Introduce students to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and other well-known authors with this collection of plays based on their classic short stories. These engaging plays will expand students’ literary knowledge, while “rehearsing” the parts will encourage the repeated readings they need to build their fluency and comprehension skills. Also includes discussion prompts and easy activities designed to help students identify and understand plot, setting, character, and theme!
Teaching Tip
There are several enjoyable and effective ways to produce plays in your classroom—Readers Theater, simple performance, radio drama, puppet shows, and full-blown stage productions, to name a few. Whichever format you choose will give your students the opportunity to read the same script repetitively!
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Item # 0545204569_e | Grades 4-8 | 72.0 Pages | 3.1 MB PDF