I am already excited to see what happens during my literacy block with the addition of Audacity. After ready an interesting article about increasing fluency and comprehension with readers theater titled, Extending Readers Theatre: A Powerful and Purposeful Match with Podcasting, I decided to try it for myself. The article summarized the research done at an elementary school with the use of podcasting plays in small groups. As the students continued to practice plays and post to a podcast their fluency went up a grade level if not more. Comprehension skills also increased as well as their love of reading.
I have already seen how excited my students were at the prospect of rehearsing their plays and being able to share them with multiple people.
My goal is to start each week with a new play for all of my reading groups and place them on a podcast every Friday. As the year goes we will see how the project is working for my students.
To begin I looked for plays at multiple reading levels for my groups. My students are in small leveled groups during reading. The largest group is five students and the smallest is three. I used several websites to find plays that would interest my kids. I also used a few books from Scholastic that had great short plays. We will also use plays on our content areas to increase understanding in all topics.
My students were thrilled to get into their groups and start reading. I hope to keep that excitement as we continue in this process.
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