Anticipation and Mood

Our recent fluency lessons for our reader's theater week was about anticipation and mood. We talked about how in life we anticipate different things ... what we are looking forward to ... or anticipation could include events we are nervous or worried about. Then we talked about how as readers when we are working on a readers theater, when we read several times, we should anticipate what will happen next in the text, and plan to change our voices to fit the mood, or emotion of the story.