Oral interpretation facilitates the learning processes of adolescents by making the presentation of subject matter more interesting and meaningful to them, helping them feel involved, and providing them with an opportunity to perceive literature in action. Narrative literature is a good place to begin oral interpretation activities, since storytelling increases students' speaking ability and helps them develop techniques to hold audience attention. Presenting prose, poetry, and drama in a storytelling, choral reading, or readers theatre format can also be an exciting way to explore literature. Choral reading helps illustrate comparison and contrast, rhyming patterns, alliteration, and imagery. Reading poetry aloud helps improve students' attitudes toward poetry. For example, a class activity in which each student contributes a line to create a poem is easy, fun, and productive. Music, another source of inspiration to writing and reading poetry, can help make a students' presentation interesting. In addition to classroom assignments, performance activities can stimulate productive student endeavors. For example, presenting Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" in a readers theatre format can help this story come alive for students. (This story, arranged by Billy Watson, is appended, as is an exercise for writing a poem.) (JD)