Reading Idol! Bringing Readers Theatre Center Stage in Your Classroom

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science
English Language Arts

Grade(s)

3, 4, 5

Overview

Students have an opportunity to create an outstanding Readers Theatre performance within groups to compete for the title of Reading Idol. Students are given scripts to practice their roles within Readers Theatre. Throughout the week, groups practice repeatedly until the performance day. On the performance day, students take turns performing and evaluating their own work and the performances of other groups before voting on a winning performance. All groups are required to create a podcast of their performance. The Reading Idol winners are also recorded by video and uploaded to the teacher's website for others to view.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.3

Apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.

UP:ELA21.3.3

Vocabulary

  • Oral language activities
  • Oral literacy skills

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Oral literacy skills include speaking, listening, and comprehending.
  • Oral language activities are those activities in which speakin, listening, and understanding are required.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Apply oral literacy skills when participating in various oral language activities, such as plays, dramas, choral readings, oral reports.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can learn, practice, and apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.10

Read and reread grade-appropriate text accurately, automatically, and with meaningful expression at a rate which supports comprehension.

UP:ELA21.3.10

Vocabulary

  • Reread
  • Grade-appropriate text
  • Accurately
  • Automatically
  • Meaningful expression
  • Rate which supports comprehension

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Accurately means reading without mistakes, and automatically means knowing the words immediately without sounding them out.
  • Techniques to make appropriate changes in voice, pitch, and expression while reading orally.
  • Reading must occur at a speed (rate) that supports understanding of the text.
  • Rereading is a strategy that aids in word recognition and comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Read and reread words that are third grade-appropriate with little to no mistakes.
  • Read words quickly without pausing to sound them out.
  • Read and reread at a pace that supports comprehension of the text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They should read text with accuracy, automaticity, and meaningful expression at a pace that helps them comprehend the text they are reading.
  • They can reread text to improve their accuracy, automaticity, and comprehension.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.6

Read grade-level text orally with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, and integration to support comprehension.

UP:ELA21.4.6

Vocabulary

  • Pauses
  • Intonation
  • Integration
  • Stress
  • Phrasing
  • Rate
  • Comprehension

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Fluent readers include pauses at appropriate times, link spoken words together in phrases, stress the correct syllables and words in sentences, and use changes in voice tone to convey meaning.
  • Oral reading must occur at a rate (speed) to integrate meaning and support comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Demonstrate oral reading with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, and intonation.
    • Orally read at a rate that supports comprehension.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • To comprehend text that they read aloud, they must read at an appropriate speed, and include pauses, phrasing, stress, and intonation as indicated by the text.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.6

Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate prosody or expression, purpose, and understanding, self-correcting and rereading as necessary.

UP:ELA21.5.6

Vocabulary

  • Accuracy
  • Automaticity
  • Prosody
  • Expression
  • Purpose
  • Understanding
  • Self-correcting
  • Rereading

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Accurately means reading without mistakes, and automatically means knowing the words immediately without sounding them out.
  • Prosody is reading aloud with appropriate changes in voice, pitch, and expression.
  • Reading can occur for different purposes and setting a purpose for reading can improve comprehension.
  • Rereading is a strategy that aids in word recognition and comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Set a purpose prior to reading aloud.
  • Read aloud accurately, automatically, while using appropriate expression.
  • Self-correct and reread when necessary.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Identifying their purpose for reading prior to beginning to read can improve their comprehension of the text.
  • Fluent readers are accurate, automatic, and use appropriate voice expression.
  • If a word is misread, they need to self-correct and reread.
  • If their comprehension begins to break down, they need to reread to improve their understanding.
DLCS18.3.R6
DLCS18.4.R6
DLCS18.5.R6

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

ReadWriteThink

License Type

Custom
http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/reading-idol-bringin…

Custom License Type (URL)

http://www.readwritethink.org/util/legal.html

Comments or Notes

ReadWriteThink is a free resource with links to additional resources including interactives, videos, and printables.

Approved Date

ALSDE LOGO

This site may contain links to other websites or content belonging to or originating from third parties or links to websites and features in banners or other advertising. Such external links are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness by us. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION OFFERED BY THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES LINKED THROUGH THIS SITE.
Alabama Learning Exchange © 2002-2023 by Alabama State Department of Education is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Design by Adaptive Theme