Martin Luther King Day is celebrated across the United States each January. Your students will enjoy learning about the life of one of the most famous African-Americans, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This original play is written for use as a readers’ theater or as a part of balanced literacy (Read-Aloud, Shared and Performance Reading, or Guided Reading). In readers’ theater or through one of the balanced literacy approaches to teaching reading, children are not expected to memorize their lines,