"Building fluency through Reader's Theater is a valuable resource for improving fluency with repeated readings that fully engage students. The scripts feature roles written at multiple reading levels and are effective in enhancing content-area literacy and fluency skills through purposeful practice amnd performance"--Container.

Title from container. CD-ROM and audio CD : Ã 2011. Teacher's guide written by Jamey Acosta. Performance CDs contain readings of the fables in the script booklets and instrumental versions of songs. Transparencies include poems and songs and Tips for performing Reader's Theater. Poems : Curtain time ; What if the score is against you? / Anonymous ; The shephard / William Blake ; The wind / Robert Louis Stevenson ; One crow means sorrow / Traditional ; I saw a ship a-sailing / Traditional ; Grasshopper green / Traditional ; The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Songs : Blow the man down / Traditional ; Beautiful dreamer / Stephen Foster ; Home sweet home / John Howard Payne ; When Johnny comes marching home / Traditional ; The ants go marching / Traditional ; April showers / B.G. DeSylva ; Are you sleeping? (Frère Jacques) / Traditional ; Bought me a cat / Traditional. Scripts of fables include : The goose that laid the golden eggs / Kathleen E. Bradley (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The lion and the mouse / Dona Herweck Rice (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The fox and the crow / Dona Herweck Rice (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The boy who cried wolf / Kathleen E. Bradley (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The tortoise and the hare / Dona Herweck Rice (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The grasshopper and the ants / Debra J. Housel (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The town mouse and the country mouse / Debra J. Housel (24 p. ; 23 cm.) ; The north wind and the sun / Dona Herweck Rice (24 p. ; 23 cm.).