We took a break from our traditional reading instruction this week so that we could learn about readers' theater.  It is easiest to explain what it is, by explaining what it is not.  It is not a full-scale production with props, scenery, costumes and memorized parts.  Instead, a readers' theater performance is a dramatic reading.  The readers usually stand or sit in front of the audience and are reading from a script that is held in their hands.  We hope to take our show "on the road" tomorrow to share with the other first grade classes.  A couple of students were absent when these photos were taken.  I apologize.