Students will participate in Readers’ Theater drama plays which can be a valuable and rewarding reading activity. The plays provide a fun, safe, and effective way for students to practice and improve their reading fluency, which can lead to gains in reading comprehension. Each play has speaking roles, so all students will have an opportunity to participate in reading a character's lines. Most lines have a prompt before their dialogue begins which tells them the emotion to bring out in their voice while reading. This enables students to use their expressive speaking tone while reading their lines. In addition, each play has a list of  “Watch Out Words”, which we discuss before reading. These are important vocabulary words in fairy tales. Also, we compare and contrast the original fairy tale to the fractured version. We discuss the original before reading and compare/contrast the fractured after. 
This class provides practice for students who enjoy performing in theater and drama plays, by ‘showing’ the character’s mood and behavior in their voice. Each class section practices a new play.
Drama plays include the following Fractured Fairy Tales: 
Week 1~ Jack and the Cornstalk
Week 2 ~ Cinder...Really?
 Week 3 ~ Goldilocks and the Three Ardvarks 
Week 4 The Princess and the Potato
Week 5~ The Three Pirate Pigs
Week 6~ Gransel and  Hetel 
Week 7 ~  Little Red Boxer Shorts
Week 8 ~ Rumpelstiltskin
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