Readersﾒ Theater helps students practice reading orally with fluency and expression. Contains fifteen complete scripts that provide all the fun and interest of full-scale dramatic productions without the staging challenges. Follow-up activities that accompany each script address key skills from the reading, language arts curriculum. You will find grade-level content-area connections in each script, which make them a natural choice for dramatic reading performances at holiday programs and school assemblies. The 15 script selections include: --A complete script for student readers --A program for listing cast members --Follow-up activities to provide skills practice in grade-level content --Evaluation templates to help students and teacher evaluate student performances --A complete answer key. And a teacher's page that: --Summarizes the script --Helps to build background knowledge --Introduces vocabulary --Offers optional ideas for simple staging effects to enhance the production. Readersﾒ Theater, Grade 1 productions offer teachers the flexibility of casting more than one reader for each role as a way to support emerging readers. The 15 scripts include the following features that provide additional support for emerging readers: --Simple rhyming text helps increase predictability of the text in the script for "Too Much Noise!, " a traditional Jewish folktale. --Scripts based on familiar folktales such as "The Three Billy Goats Gruff, " "The Little Red Hen, " and "The Three Little Pigs" increase studentsﾒ comfort with read-aloud material. --A patterned story structure and repeating choral refrain help support beginning readers in "Out in the Woods. "