 |
Increase Parent Involvement for Free Introduce parents to Playbooks® Reader's Theater and you'll gain an avid supporter for your reading program. Parents will quickly discover how reading Playbook® stories aloud at home makes reading enjoyable for children and improves their reading fluency. For the month of September, Playbooks, Inc. is offering one download print story FREE to teachers. Teachers can either print the download story and distribute copies to parents or give parents the coupon code to download the story from their home computer. Increase parent involvement by incorporating this offer into your open house night program or parent-teacher conference meeting! Free Story to Give to Parents
Use Coupon Code:ParentTeacher Story Synopsis: Going to the park for a picnic was a nice, normal thing to do. Nothing ever happened at the park, especially at this old, rundown park in Appleton. But Nikki and Shawna were in for a very unusual surprise. A simple ride on a merry-go-round took them much farther than they ever could have imagined. It brought them to the future! Arriving at their strange destination, they encountered an extraordinary individual, a talking squirrel, who urgently needed their help. Nikki and Shawna agreed to make changes in their own time to save the squirrel family in the future, but they would need the help of the whole community. Would the community join together? If so, all they needed was time. |
FREE Reading Assessment Test Imagine starting the school year confronted with students whose reading abilities span three to four grade levels. Managing this diversity can be challenging and calls for flexible small group reading strategies so all students thrive in the classroom. Research and analysis performed by the National Reading Panel (2000) has found correlations between small group instruction and improved reading outcomes. Playbooks® Reader's Theater is an effective small group instructional format that thoroughly engages both the advanced and struggling reader. According to Reading First guidelines, student placement in small groups should be determined by ongoing assessments beginning with a pre-assessment to determine the student's stage of readiness (Hall, 2002). Playbooks, Inc. has made pre-assessment and ongoing assessments a very quick and easy task to implement. Our FREE online readability test takes only two minutes to execute and will rate a student's Playbook® reading level. There is no limit to the number of times the assessment test can be used. The assessment requires a child to read aloud passages of text that are leveled appropriately for each grade level. At the bottom of the screen, the teacher rates how well the student reads each passage. At the end of the test, the results are immediately shown. The student's Playbook® reading level is identified and a correlation to the DRA, Fountas & Pinnell/Guided Reading, Reading Recovery and Lexile reading scales is available at www.playbooks.com/readabilty.shtml. Based on teacher recommendations in development, the Playbook® Reading Levels are simplified to only 6 levels for practical classroom use. Test Your Students with the Playbook® Reading Level Test here. Playbooks, Inc. recommends performing a pre-assessment on each student before initiating a Playbook® Reader's Theater story. After twelve weeks, conduct another assessment test to measure the change in reading performance. On average, students can improve two to three grade levels after participating in a three month Playbooks® Reader's Theater program. |
This Month's Featured Story |
This Month's Special One Reading First Grade Level Kit
Use Coupon Code: SeptemberReadingFirst
|
||
 |
The Legend of Lightning Larry Told by: Aaron Shepard
|
||
No outlaw could ever draw as fast as Lightning Larry. But what really terrifies bad men everywhere is that peculiar gun of his--it doesn't shoot bullets. What comes out of Larry's gun is something mighty different! The small town of Brimstone is having trouble with a gang of outlaws led by Evil-Eye McNeevil. Larry steps in to clean up the town. Can Larry's quick hands and special gun stop the gang, or will the citizens of Brimstone have to put up with Evil-Eye forever? Find out in this rip-roaring original tale of a gunfighter with a huge smile and a hankering for lemonade.
|
|||
Famous Quotes Henry B. Adams "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." John Dewey "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." Patricia Neal "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations." William Butler Yeats "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." Arthur Koestler "Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. |
Playbooks® RT For the Students |
Playbooks® RT For the Teacher |
Fluency and Comprehension Skills
Character Development Entertaining Content Guided Reading Prompts for expression Opportunities for Repeated Reading Modeling Song and Rhyme Costume Kits and Award Certificates The Lure of Performance Reading (Star Performer)  |
Detailed Teacher’s Guides Classroom Management
|
|
Featured Author: Aaron Shepard
Aaron learned this writing style from his years performing as a professional actor for Chamber Readers, a nonprofit Reader's Theater company founded in 1975. During his five years with the group, Aaron performed, scripted and directed many Reader's Theater performances at the theater and on local public radio. He also led numerous Reader's Theater workshops for teachers, librarians and students. After leaving the stage, Aaron published "Stories on Stage" (H.W. Wilson), which is considered by many the premier Reader's Theater script collection. If you enjoyed reading Aaron Shepard's most popular story, "The Legend of Lightning Larry," check our website for additional Aaron Shepard stories adapted to the Playbook® Reader's Theater format. |
|
|
For Playbooks, Inc. Vendor Numbers or Vendor Approval Information, click here. |
||
©2007 Copyright, Playbooks, Inc. All Rights Reserved