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Drill Down DSD. Rasinski Phonics to Fluency. Reading Genre Bingo. Readers Theatre. Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Students become excited and enthusiastic about reading when they are presented with the opportunity to participate in Readers Theatre. In this lesson, students develop scripts, perform in groups, and practice using their voice to depict characters from texts. Back to top Reader’s Theater Scripts and Plays: This website with an excellent compilation of scripts will get your students focused on reading texts with expression Kimbell-Lopez, K. (2003).

Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator for Grades 3-5. Reading fluency norms can serve as a stable benchmark for reading fluency. Give OFA tests three times a year, fall, winter, and spring, to monitor progress over time. What Is an Oral Fluency Assessment Norm? A norm is a standardized score that is determined through the collection of scores of many different students at the same grade level. The oral fluency norms that are used in this lesson are derived from the scores of students in eight racially and economically diverse districts. What Do the Percentiles Indicate? Percentiles indicate the percentage of students that received scores equal to, or lower than, the raw score. For example, the raw score at the 50th percentile for 5th-grade students in the fall is 105 WCPM. Fluency Goals for the End of Grades 3-5: 3rd Grade (Spring): 114 WCPM. 4th Grade (Spring): 118 WCPM. 5th Grade (Spring): 128 WCPM.

Use the Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator when you administer tests with your students. Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays for the Classroom. Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. No memorization, costumes, blocking, or special lighting is needed. Presentations can easily be done in a k-3 classroom. Scripts are held by the readers. Lines are not memorized. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures. "Reader's Theater proved to be almost a magic solution for Griffith: In just 10 weeks of using RT, every child in her class had gained a full grade level in reading. Update - July 08. Readers Theatre Scripts.