Read-Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories: 8 Fluency-Boosting Plays With Easy Activities That Teach Key Literary Elements (Teaching Resources)

Introduce students to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and other well-known authors with this collection of plays based on their classic short stories. These engaging plays will expand students’ literary knowledge, while “rehearsing” the parts will encourage the repeated readings they need to build their fluency and comprehension skills. Also includes discussion prompts and easy activities designed to help students identify and understand plot, setting, character, and theme. For use with Grades 4-8.

Mack Lewis is a National Board Certified teacher with a degree in English and a post-baccalaureate certificate in education from Southern Oregon University. He has taught intermediate grades in Central Point, Oregon, since 1993, and has been a frequent contributor to Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, in which more than a dozen of his plays have appeared. His other Scholastic Teaching Resources titles include Read-Aloud Plays: Symbols of America and Super Sentences and Perfect Paragraphs.