Mother Goose Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers

Written for children reading at early primary-school level, this book will appeal to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers.

An added feature to this book is its focus on Mother Goose rhymes, a literary type commonly taught to this age of student.

The book contains plays based on thirty well-known rhymes: "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater"; "Hey Diddle Diddle"; "Mary Had a Little Lamb"; "Hickory Dickory Dock", and others.

An introductory chapter discusses the educational value of using readers theatre with young readers and English Language Learner (ELL) students, looks at staging and presentation, and contains instructional follow-up suggestions.

Reading levels are based on accepted readability formulas.

The author offers staging diagrams that will enable teachers to use each script with entire classrooms of students, and the book includes lists of further teaching resources.

Several of the scripts feature simultaneous Spanish translations - a real plus for ELL programmes.