The Great Kapok Tree Cast 1

The class has worked so hard the past couple of week preparing for the Celebration of Learning. They have practiced the Reader's Theatre, and created a most beautiful rainforest mural in our room. As we practiced our reader's theatre, one of the things we talked about was fluency. Fluent readers use puntuation to make their reading flow and make sense. We learned to pause at periods between sentences and after commas. Fluenty readers do not read just as fast as they can but instead read with expression. Sometimes we need to slow down so that others can enjoy and understand what we read. The repetition and practice that is necessary for our reader's theatre was a great way to improve reading fluency.