Reading for Intermediate and Advanced Learners, Spring, 2011

Helping young readers develop fluency is often very difficult. My workshop will focus on helping teachers use Readers Theatre in their classrooms as a tool to help develop their students' fluency as well as engage them in what they're reading. The practice and repetition of reading and rereading a script for Readers Theatre has purpose and meaning. It is not just a dull rereading of the same text over and over to build fluency. It helps gets even the most reluctant readers motivated to read.