Getting Ready To Read With Readers Theatre [Paperback]

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatrecontains fifty, reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read. These patterned scripts based on nursery rhymes, poetry and other fun things to read are grouped into traditional preschool and kindergarten curricular groupings. Reading level based on the Flesch-Kincaid scale will be 0.0. Kids will learn to read by hearing and repeating and seeing the patterns. The authors will include information about props, staging and how to introduce the concept of reading together to these very young children.

Suzanne I. Barchers, EdD, is the author of two college textbooks, over 20 readers theatre and teacher resource books, and more than 100 educational books for children. She is past president of the Association of Educational Publishers and serves on the PBS Kids Next Generation Advisory Board. Barchers has served as a public school teacher, affiliate faculty for the University of Colorado-Denver, acquisitions editor for Teacher Ideas Press, editor and chief of Leapfrog, and managing editor atWeekly Reader. Barchers writes and consults from her home.

Charla R. Pfeffingerreceived her bachelor of science degree in elementary education and her master's degree in reading from Illinois State University, Normal, Ill. Mrs. Pfeffinger was an educator in Illinois for twenty-two years before retiring. She has been a contributing author toLearningmagazine,Storycart Press, and the author ofA Teen's Book of Lists, Holiday Readers TheatreandCharacter Counts! Promoting Character Education: Readers Theatre.

This is a great resource and would be a welcome addition to any elementary school library and a worthwhile read to any teacher working with beginning readers. Public Libraries