This four-page, three-part article by National Board Certified teacher and Storyworks magazine playwright Mack Lewis provides tips and strategies to make the most of your reader's theater or classroom play activities. "Why Use Drama?" reveals some of the research about how the reader's theater model builds fluency and comprehension. Use it to defend against all the text-book pushers out there! "There's More Than One Way to Produce a Play" maps out six performance/production strategies. "The Delicate Nature of Assessing Drama" offers tips on teaching students to self-assess and discuss performance standards in a mature way. When you're done reading about using drama, consider injecting new life into your writing program with Mack's new book, Super Sentences and Perfect Paragraphs, from Scholastic Professional Books from Amazon. Go to mackowiecki.com for more info.