Participate in creative and expressive responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion, dramatization, oral presentations, and personal experiences). 0501.2.7

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1. Choral Poetry - Teacher lesson [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
2. Choral Reading - Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
3. Delivering a Persuasive Speech - Lesson plan, tips and tricks; how they say something and how they physically present themselves are just as important as what they say. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
4. Free Playbooks - PDF files
5. J. K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays - participate in a debate and decide whether the books should be banned from the public library.
6. Listen and Respond to Fables Lesson - online lesson with practice quiz. Tortoise and Hare
7. Listen and Respond to Fables - online lesson with practice quiz; Fox and the Crow
8. Monologues for Children - Short monologues.
9. Monologues for Kids - Short monologues.
10. Monologues for Young People - audio included to listen to script as well as perform it.
11. More Ideas Than You'll Ever Use for Book Reports - many ideas for book reports, some of them are suggestions for oral reports
12. Oral Book Review - suggestions from an elementary teacher in Colorado
13. Poetry Presentation Rubric - Use this rubric for oral presentations
14. Readers Theatre - Ideas from classroom teachers.
15. Readers Theatre Scripts - many scripts to download [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
16. Readers Theatre Scripts - scripts and lesson ideas
17. Script Resources for Readers Theatre - Scripts to use for your classroom; all age groups.
18. Scripts - Drama - Free scripts to use in your classroom.
19. Speaking Up on the Daily News - Here's a "News Broadcast" activity that's tons of fun...and full of valuable learning, too.
20. Whootie Owl's Reader's Theatre Play Scripts - Complete play scripts of stories with positive themes - just print & perform!

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