Theatre in Education
According to some drama teachers, plays have built-in strategies to help students improve their reading skills. The acting out of dialogue causes readers to work more closely with the text to project and interpret meaning into the reading experience. Consequently, students gain improvement in vocabulary, comprehension and retention. Reading in a small group provides reading role models which is also proven to improve reading skills in students. Research has shown that Readers Theatre can improve reading fluency, word choice and comprehension.
One of the foremost authors on Readers Theatre was Dr. Leslie Irene Coger. Dr. Coger taught for most of her career at Missouri State University and wrote the book, Readers Theatre Handbook: A Dramatic Approach to Literature.
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