After we finished our week studying the genre of fables, we spent the next week working on Reader's Theaters of different fables. I broke my class into three groups and gave each group one fable to rehearse. We worked for about 20 minutes for three days. I used one of those books that differentiate the roles so that my higher readers could have more complex parts. During whole group instruction, we read "The Strongest One" from our reading book. It's a fable written as a play. We worked as a class on reading with expression and reading smoothly.
It was awesome to see them perform for each other on Friday. For one thing, they were so supportive of each other. One of my students this year absolutely hates reading, and he can barely read anything at all, so he only had two very short lines and he grumbled about that all week, but when he got up and performed at the end of the week, two or three of the other boys came and gave him a huge hug when he finished. They were all hugging applauding and just had a great attitude about the whole thing.
Here is the audio for the group that performed Chicken Little. It's hard to hear in some parts, but you can tell that they have really worked on reading together in unison and putting some expression into it. I'm so proud.
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