Meeting ELA Standards Along
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Playbooks® offers stories with a wide variety of subjects, topics and themes to best fit your curriculum or reading enrichment program. Topics covered range from academics and character development lessons to special interests, literary genres and classic literature.
Playbooks® meet Language Arts requirements as well as other state standards with the help of special story topics and cross-curricular supplemental packets. Each of our Supplemental Packets contain activities from at least three main content areas (Math, Science, Social Studies, or Language Arts) and activities from at least two supplemental content areas (Art, Music, Health, Drama, etc.)
Looking for a specific topic?
View Playbook® titles by content theme.
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Playbooks® Come With
Supplemental Activity
Packets to Help You Meet
Cross-Curricular Standards
Playbooks, Inc. provides classroom activity outlines and worksheets to reinforce concepts from the story and go beyond the story into the content areas of Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Health, etc., as well as Character Development. Activities range in skill level and age appropriateness, so the teacher or instructor can choose activities that best suit each reader.
Activities include: assessment worksheets, comprehension quizzes, phonics exercises, crossword puzzles, word search, vocabulary, science experiments, flash cards, discussion and writing prompts, story mapping, word problems, etc.
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Staff Development Opportunities
For Implementing Reader's Theater
Although no training is required for any typeof instructor to implement Playbooks®, our Grade Level Kits each come with a comprehensive Step-by-Step Implementation Guide. Also, for training groups of staff, our Reader's Theater Implementation Workshop is great for helping you make the best use of your materials and make the most difference in your students' learning! Title II professional development funds can actually help you purchase reader's theater and accompanying training for your program in this manner.
The workshop package can be priced with or without Playbooks® materials included, as shown below, depending on your budget. Request a workshop proposal to get a free quote on your workshop/staff training.
Workshop with Playbook® Reader's Theater Materials
Purchase your program materials along with the training session for your teachers to use with students throughout the school year (multiple stories with 6 student copies per title). Request a Workshop Proposal
Workshop Only
Purchase a workshop for learning how to implement a variety of reader's theater materials that are available or for implementing
Playbooks® Reader's Theater materials purchased separately. Request a Workshop Proposal The workshop/training is designed for directors and instructors alike and can be structured for 90-120 minutes and topics include: why Reader's Theater is an approved method of Repeated Guided Oral Reading and integrated instruction, how to structure a weekly Reader's Theater program with proper repetition and rotation of stories over varied lengths of time; coaching techniques for reading with expression; how to assign different leveled roles properly and structure effective groups; how to measure student progress; and many more. Click here for workshop content details. |
