Webcast: English Language Learners and Academic Language
Featuring Dr. Robin Scarcella, providing an overview to academic language instruction for English language learners, as well as teaching strategies, activity ideas, and recommended resources.
Benefits of Using Sentence Frames
Sentence frames are one easy way to focus on a language structure, provide scaffolded support for ELLs and explicitly teach English language structures.
Teacher's Guide: Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave, a novel written in free verse by Katherine Applegate, tells the story of Kek, an eleven-year-old boy from the Sudan who arrives as a refugee to Minnesota in the middle of winter.
Cuentos y Más
Celebrate the joy of reading with Cuentos y Más, a dynamic show offered by the Arlington Public Library in Arlington, VA and winner of the Outstanding Children's Program award by the Virginia Public Library Directors Association.
Literacy Connections: Readers' Theater
This webpage has description of Readers' Theater and links to many useful websites that offer tips for doing Readers Theater in the classroom, including where to find scripts online.
Reading Online — Electronic Journal of the National Reading Association
This site offers background information and research (with links to the studies) that support the academic benefits of Readers Theater. It also offers links to instructions for implementation, assessments and many, many free scripts.
Readers' Theater Scripts and Plays
This section from Teachingheart.net offers links to numerous scripts, as well as some books with collections of Readers' Theater plays and activities.
Readers' Theater Tips
This informative site from Aaron Shephard site has step-by-step instructions on how to implement Readers' Theater in the classroom, as well as a link to a book by Aaron Shephard called, "Readers on Stage."
Readers' Theater Resources
This is another informative website with information on how to stage Readers' Theater for different grade levels from Lois Walker.
Introduction to Readers Theater: A Guide to Classroom Performance
This book by Gerald Lee Ratliff includes background on Readers' Theater, lesson plans, recommended readings, and scripts that can be used in the classroom. The book is available for sale on Amazon.com.