Nonfiction Vs. Fiction Texts

Nonfiction texts are hard for me to make into a Readers' Theater.  When you make one out of a nonfiction text, you need to tie in the information with it. If you were to do a nonfiction book, I would recommend making a Readers' Theater out of one with animals in it.  For example, a group of students (like me) in our FOCUS group did a book called Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart.  Why?  You can make the animals be played by people.  You would just need different voices.  To me, making a Readers' Theater out of a fiction book is much easier because there are always characters in that type of book.  I think doing fiction is much easier.  But, it is all fun.






                               Matt