Reader's Theater is an excellent way to get students engaged in reading and to build their fluency. 16 pages of examples, instructions, and rubric.Reader's Theater builds reading fluency because as students prepare to present, they are completing repeated readings with a purpose, thereby increasing their accuracy and automaticity. I have been teaching Sharon M. Draper's Hazelwood High Trilogy since discovering it in 2009. Darkness Before Dawn is the third book in this award-winning series, and