CONTACT: Krista Lawson
27702 Crown Valley D-4 #165
Ladera Ranch, CA 92694
(800) 375-2926
Email: kristal@readerstheater.net
Playbooks® Reader’s Theater Partners With the American Camp Association to Fight Summer Learning Loss
Ladera Ranch, CA (June 15, 2011) – Playbooks® Reader’s Theater is teaming up with the American Camp Association (ACA) as an official partner to help enhance summer learning with a fun and effective plan for improving reading skills. Reader’s theater makes a powerful addition to camp curriculum because it is the solution for turning “reading into recreation” as an exciting social activity.
Playbooks® is a sponsor of the ACA “Explore 30” reading initiative, designed to fight summer learning loss, and offers resources for summer learning opportunities at http://www.acacamps.org/explore30. Playbooks Reader’s Theater is offering ACA camps special discounts on a variety of reading and training resources, including a free one-hour webinar with host and national reader's theater expert, Dianna Cleveland, and national camp and education expert, Lance Ozier. Learn more at www.playbooks.com/CampRT.shtml.
Reader's theater is reading a story aloud, like a play, with each student bringing a character role to life. It's fun, engaging, and social and requires no memorization, props, or a stage. Research has shown that all students experience learning loss when they do not participate in reading activities during the summer, and the most important piece to making summer reading effective is social interactive reading. Playbooks® Reader’s Theater, with its unique format of color-coded dialogue and easier and harder roles in the same script, provides a practical way for students to read aloud together in small, multi-leveled groups. Students become guides for each other to increase comprehension and fluency, making a simple summer reader's theater program very powerful!
What makes reader’s theater perfect for the camp setting?
In summer camps, reader’s theater activities make an academically valuable alternative to “Skit Night” that is just as fun and entertaining, being in the same family of theater arts, and with plenty of room for creative acting, expression, and humor. Students love the conversational aspect of this type of social reading in small groups, maximizing student attention and success of the program. The social interactive quality of the activity allows students to grow in confidence and self esteem, especially shy students and reluctant readers, and translates into positive changes for the following school year.
About Playbooks® Reader’s Theater company
Playbooks, Inc. is located in Ladera Ranch, CA and is the leading supplier of reader’s theater scripts and classroom story sets to schools and families across the country. For more information, call 1-800-375-2926 or visit http://playbooks.com.
