A Bit of Background

All primary teachers know that Reader’s Theater is a great way to promote fluency and expression in students’ oral reading.  Recently, we read two different pieces of literature  in class that lend themselves nicely to Reader’s Theater.  The first story, Try Your Best, is a realistic fiction story composed of mostly dialogue between characters about kids at a summer camp. The second story, Did You See Chip?, was a play about a girl who moves to the new city, looses  her dog, and makes new friends on her journey to recover her missing pup! I wanted to try incorporating technology into my students’  Reader’s Theater experiences. For these two projects I selected two different tools, Voki, a web based tool, and Puppet Pals 2, an iPad app. Continue reading →