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Reading Idol! Bringing Readers Theatre Center Stage in Your Classroom

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Title:

 Reading Idol! Bringing Readers Theatre Center Stage in Your Classroom

URL:

 http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/reading-idol-bringing-readers-30621.html

Content Source:

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students have an opportunity to create an outstanding Readers Theatre performance within groups to compete for the title of Reading Idol. Students are given scripts to practice their roles within Readers Theatre. Throughout the week, groups practice repeatedly until the performance day. On the performance day, students take turns performing and evaluating their own work and the performances of other groups before voting on a winning performance. All groups are required to create a podcast of their performance. The Reading Idol winners are also recorded by video and uploaded to the teacher's website for others to view.

Content Standard(s):
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 3
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • produce authentic artifacts using digital tools using various forms of media.
  • review and revise authentic artifacts using digital tools.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • multimedia
  • artifacts
  • Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • a variety of digital tools in which they can create or revise authentic artifacts to share their knowledge.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • design and create authentic artifacts using approved digital tools that meet COPPA guidelines.
  • review an authentic artifact to revise with new or additional information.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • everyone can be an author, producer, director, etc.
    • , using digital tools.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 4
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • produce authentic artifacts using digital tools.
  • review and revise authentic artifacts using digital tools.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • multimedia
  • artifacts
  • Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to use a variety of digital tools in which they can create or revise authentic artifacts to share their knowledge.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • design and create authentic artifacts using approved digital tools that meet COPPA guidelines.
  • review an authentic artifact to revise with new or additional information.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • everyone can be an author, producer, director, etc.
    • using digital tools.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 5
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • produce authentic artifacts using digital tools.
  • review and revise authentic artifacts using digital tools.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • multimedia
  • artifacts
  • Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to use a variety of digital tools in which they can create or revise authentic artifacts to share their knowledge.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • design and create authentic artifacts using approved digital tools that meet COPPA standards.
  • review an authentic artifact to revise with new or additional information.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • everyone can be an author, producer, director, etc.
    • using digital tools.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
2. Present information orally using complex sentence structures, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.

a. Use oral language for different purposes: to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to clarify, and to respond.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
2.
  • Present
  • Orally
  • Complex sentence structure
  • Appropriate volume
  • Clear pronunciation
2a.
  • Oral language
  • Inform
  • Entertain
  • Persuade
  • Clarify
  • Respond
Knowledge:
2. Students know:
  • Clear oral communication requires the speaker to use complex sentence structures, appropriate speaking volume, and correct speech pronunciation.
2a.
  • Oral language is used for different purposes.
  • Oral language can be used to inform about a topic, to provide an entertaining story, to persuade someone about a particular opinion, to further explain a topic, or to respond to someone else's ideas.
Skills:
2. Students are able to:
  • Form complex sentences, use appropriate voice volume based on the situation or environment, and use clear pronunciation when sharing information orally.
2a.
  • Use their listening and speaking skills to inform an audience about a topic.
  • Use their listening and speaking skills to entertain an audience.
  • Use their listening and speaking skills to further explain information or provide additional details.
  • Use their listening and speaking skills to respond to others' ideas or questions.
  • Use their listening and speaking skills to persuade an audience about a particular opinion.
Understanding:
2. Students understand that:
  • Presenting information orally requires them to use complex sentences, an appropriate voice volume for the setting, and speaking words clearly.
2a.
  • They can use their oral language skills for a variety of purposes, including informing others, entertaining others, persuading others, clarifying ideas, and responding to others.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
3. Apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.

Examples: plays, dramas, choral readings, oral reports
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Teacher Vocabulary:
3.
  • Oral language activities
  • Oral literacy skills
Knowledge:
3. Students know:
  • Oral literacy skills include speaking, listening, and comprehending.
  • Oral language activities are those activities in which speakin, listening, and understanding are required.
Skills:
3. Students are able to:
  • Apply oral literacy skills when participating in various oral language activities, such as plays, dramas, choral readings, oral reports.
Understanding:
3. Students understand that:
  • They can learn, practice, and apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
10. Read and reread grade-appropriate text accurately, automatically, and with meaningful expression at a rate which supports comprehension.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
10.
  • Reread
  • Grade-appropriate text
  • Accurately
  • Automatically
  • Meaningful expression
  • Rate which supports comprehension
Knowledge:
10. Students know:
  • Accurately means reading without mistakes, and automatically means knowing the words immediately without sounding them out.
  • Techniques to make appropriate changes in voice, pitch, and expression while reading orally.
  • Reading must occur at a speed (rate) that supports understanding of the text.
  • Rereading is a strategy that aids in word recognition and comprehension.
Skills:
10. Students are able to:
  • Read and reread words that are third grade-appropriate with little to no mistakes.
  • Read words quickly without pausing to sound them out.
  • Read and reread at a pace that supports comprehension of the text.
Understanding:
10. Students understand that:
  • They should read text with accuracy, automaticity, and meaningful expression at a pace that helps them comprehend the text they are reading.
  • They can reread text to improve their accuracy, automaticity, and comprehension.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
5. Demonstrate fluency when reading grade-level text and when responding through writing or speaking.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
5.
  • Demonstrate
  • Fluency
  • Reading
  • Responding
  • Writing
  • Speaking
Knowledge:
5. Students know:
  • Fluency is the ability to read, write, or speak at a pace that does not negatively impact meaning or understanding.
Skills:
5. Students are able to:
  • Read grade-level text fluently.
  • Demonstrate fluency when writing.
  • Demonstrate fluent speech.
Understanding:
5. Students understand that:
  • The ability to read fluently supports comprehension, or understanding, of the text.
  • The ability to write and speak fluently helps clearly communicate with others.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
6. Read grade-level text orally with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, and integration to support comprehension.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
6.
  • Pauses
  • Intonation
  • Integration
  • Stress
  • Phrasing
  • Rate
  • Comprehension
Knowledge:
6. Students know:
  • Fluent readers include pauses at appropriate times, link spoken words together in phrases, stress the correct syllables and words in sentences, and use changes in voice tone to convey meaning.
  • Oral reading must occur at a rate (speed) to integrate meaning and support comprehension.
Skills:
6. Students are able to:
  • Demonstrate oral reading with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, and intonation.
    • Orally read at a rate that supports comprehension.
Understanding:
6. Students understand that:
  • To comprehend text that they read aloud, they must read at an appropriate speed, and include pauses, phrasing, stress, and intonation as indicated by the text.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
6. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate prosody or expression, purpose, and understanding, self-correcting and rereading as necessary.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
6.
  • Accuracy
  • Automaticity
  • Prosody
  • Expression
  • Purpose
  • Understanding
  • Self-correcting
  • Rereading
Knowledge:
6. Students know:
  • Accurately means reading without mistakes, and automatically means knowing the words immediately without sounding them out.
  • Prosody is reading aloud with appropriate changes in voice, pitch, and expression.
  • Reading can occur for different purposes and setting a purpose for reading can improve comprehension.
  • Rereading is a strategy that aids in word recognition and comprehension.
Skills:
6. Students are able to:
  • Set a purpose prior to reading aloud.
  • Read aloud accurately, automatically, while using appropriate expression.
  • Self-correct and reread when necessary.
Understanding:
6. Students understand that:
  • Identifying their purpose for reading prior to beginning to read can improve their comprehension of the text.
  • Fluent readers are accurate, automatic, and use appropriate voice expression.
  • If a word is misread, they need to self-correct and reread.
  • If their comprehension begins to break down, they need to reread to improve their understanding.
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