What is the title of the project? The title of the project was “Using Readers
Theater to Show Off Good Reading”
What is the Question? The main question is how can one effectively
utilize Reader’s Theater to improve the fluency and reading comprehension
skills of my students? Other questions that follow along these lines are:
- What does Readers Theater look
like in the classroom?
- What is the impact of Readers
Theater on students’ levels of fluency?
- What is the impact of Readers
Theater on students’ levels of comprehension?
- What changes in students’ level
of interest in reading and reading behaviors are noted following the use
of Readers Theater?
What strategy is
being used to address? Simulation
and games
What evidence is presented that the strategy
will work? Caluris noted that The
National Reading Panel in 2000 identified fluency as a key ingredient to
successful reading instruction because of its effect on students’ reading
efficiency and comprehension.
How will data be collected to determine if the
strategy will work? Data was collected through surveys,
observations of student performances, and student fluency assessments.
How was the data analyzed? Data was analyzed by breaking it into the
four major groups that were represented in her classroom: academically talented,
general education, bilingual and special needs. Caluirs learned that the
academically talented group showed no gain because they were already fluent
readers with great comprehension. She saw about the same percentage of gains in
word recognition for the remaining groups. She noted that overall comprehension
was greater for the general education and special needs students than the
bilingual students
What were the results? Readers Theater improved the students’
reading rate, word recognition accuracy and use of expression while reading as
well as their attitudes toward reading.
How do the results inform teacher practice? These results could help teachers of
struggling students realize that utilizing Readers Theater will provide their
children with an enjoyable opportunity to engage in rereading texts to improve
fluency and comprehension levels. Teachers will also find that fluency
instruction can be incorporated through the teacher creation of Reader’s Theater
scripts across the curriculum.
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