Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Using Reader’s Theater to Teach Science

by: Susan Brooks and Cheryl Kopec Nahmias

Reader’s theater is an activity in which students, while reading directly from scripts, are able to tell a story in its most entertaining form. Typically, teachers create or purchase premade scripts of stories, and students focus on reading those scripts in a fluent and expressive manner. However, in the lesson presented here, students turn the book, Search for the Golden Bear Moon: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics by Sy Montgomery into a reader’s theater script themselves. This article describes how students act out this genetics-based story to strengthen their language skills and reinforce science concepts in the process.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2009Stock # ss09_033_03_29Volume 033Issue 03

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This article gives a very thorough description of how to turn your classroom into "Reader's Theatre" by having students create scripts from chapters in a book. Scripts, which had to incorpor... See More

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