Reader's theater is a strategy to promote oral reading fluency. Children will practice their oral reading through reading parts of a script. It should be used in small group in the "during reading" part of guided reading. When using this strategy, children do not need to memorize their part in the script, instead they reread it several times, which develops fluency. My students like to take a different part each time we read. This is this groups first time ever doing this task so they did pretty good for the first time but next time I will give them some teaching points on their expression, pitch, and prosody. I like using well-known fairytales that they have heard me read during read alouds for reader's theater because it helps my struggling readers.
