ABOUT US

Playbooks, Inc. is an education publishing company that is committed to assisting schools and families in their efforts to increase student reading ability and enjoyment and to create future generations of lifetime readers by helping to foster a love of reading in children. We strive to support the goals set by the No Child Left Behind Act through providing excellent reading material in a format that builds fluency and improves learning.

Unique and Patented Playbook® Format
The Playbook® format is patented and unique. Playbooks® provide multi-leveled and colorized reader's theater stories with each character's role written at a different ability level and appearing in a different color. It is simple for teachers to implement and easy and fun for students to follow. Teachers are able to privately assign roles to students based on their reading levels, and all readers enjoy the entertaining stories and the dynamic exercise of reading aloud together like a play. This type of reading translates into higher confidence and self-esteem in children.

Playbooks® in the Classroom
Playbooks® Multi-Leveled Reader's Theater was created with the goal of enabling readers of various ability to read together while allowing all readers to benefit from and enjoy their reading experience. Often, low level readers are grouped together and separated from the higher level readers in the classroom. This leaves them in a stagnant group of struggling readers who are only exposed to others reading at the same level. With Playbooks®, lower level readers gain the benefits of hearing richer vocabulary and sentence structure read fluently by their peers while higher level readers are given challenging texts.

Playbooks® at Home
In a home setting, parents are able to read with their children in a manner that promotes reading fluency and enjoyment. Playbooks® are designed to allow parents to match each child's reading ability to certain characters in the story. Brothers and sisters of different ages and reading abilities can enjoy the same story together. Playbook® stories provide a creative substitute for T.V. and video games, and expose children to reading role-models and richer vocabulary at home. Reader's Theater is a dynamic reading activity that children can do together, or a fun activity for the whole family. The U. S. Department of Education has declared that reading aloud is the single most important activity that parents can do with their children to ensure their future success, and that reading aloud should continue throughout the grades. Playbooks® helps parents and their children enjoy reading aloud together at any age.

Because Playbooks, Inc. specializes in Reader's Theater, its products are simply the best available ... from adaptations of classic stories to numerous original stories written and designed in the enhanced Playbook® format.