Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Investigating the Strange and Mysterious - Paperback

by Ann N. Black (Author)

This book, focusing on active, engaging material, will fill a void in the literature that currently exists for these students, their teachers, and literacy coaches. Readers theatre for boys and particularly middle school boys is a publishing gap that needs to be filled. Selections have been chosen to tempt middle school boys interest (the blood and gore in Masque of the Red Death for example). Literacy remains a major topic of concern in all academic circles, especially the inadequate performance of reading and writing by boys. These scripts will entertain as they build reading fluency. Grades 6-8.

Author Biography

Ann N. Black, graduated from Northwestern University, where she received a B.S. from the School of Communication, then worked as an actress, writer, and producer of children's radio dramas. After acquiring a Texas Secondary Teaching Certificate in Language Arts, she taught English to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students and developed Readers Theatre projects for them. Her experiences from directing, teaching, and writing led her to a M.A. in English and Oral Interpretation from the University of North Texas, then to an assistant professorship of literature and creative writing at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.