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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 33: 8 Rap

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Rap music and hip-hop were the pop music of the nineties. Learners of all ages liked to mimic the rappers they listened to on CD's, tapes, and the radio. This lesson builds on students' interest in rap music as well as their enjoyment of...
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Article
Lesson Tutor

Lesson Tutor: Stage Fright, I Mean Right

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Lesson Tutor article prepares you for overcoming stage fright in situations such as interviews and teaching. Includes a "score yourself as a speaker" test.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn practical tips for speaking in non-academic settings. SL.9-10.6 Adapt to task/formal. CSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Rehearsing the Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn ways and reasons to rehearse for a speech.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Preparing Sensory Enhancements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides four links to information about the effective use of sensory enhancements such as audio visual to your speeches. These include the do's of using sensory enhancements, the don'ts of using sensory enhancements, design...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.4.4: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Giving a Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on giving a presentation. Included are a video about why learning to give a presentation is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise...
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Failure to Communicate

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Stanford University outlines the oral communications course from Stanford. The article discusses the need for teaching oral communications.
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Other

About Stage Fright

For Students 9th - 10th
This author, Ake Lundeberg, suggests that negative pressure plays a large role in stage fright.
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Other

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: My Robot and Me

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity pupils are asked to come up with ways a robot could help them. They are then required to write a humorous story about that robot and present it to the class. This activity encourages students to be creative while also...
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Article
Other

Fripp & Associates: Preparing Your Talk

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
General principles and techiniques for delivering speeches. Target audience, materials, organization and writing and rehearsing speeches are discussed along with many more insights. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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TES Global

Blendspace: Parts of a Presentation Class

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A twenty-one-part learning module including links to texts, images, and websites on how to give a presentation in class.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Reasoning, Deduction, and Your Next Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes eight links to pictures, websites, and activities for using reasoning and deduction in a speech.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Informative Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to websites, videos, and images to use while learning how to write and deliver an informative speech.
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Article
Leaf Group

E How: So You Wanna Deliver an Effective Speech?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article which presents instruction and advice for every step of the speech writing process. Topic areas covered include: knowing your audience, organizing your speech, writing your speech, how to practice correctly, and handling...
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Other

How to Study: Making an Oral Presentation

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Ten useful ideas for making oral presentations more effective and interesting. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
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Columbia University

Columbia: Tips for Effective Presentations Using Four Important Design Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent, clear guidelines to aid you in using visual aids in a presentation. Curser down to find the information. W.9-10.6 Techno, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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Other

National University of Singapore: Preparing for Presentations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some tips are presented on how to properly prepare the content of and structure a presentation. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
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Article
Other

Speak for Success! Persuade! How to Use Body Language in a Persuasive Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains how to use body language in a persuasvie speech. Distinctions are made in the realm of body language as it applies to speaking while standing, sitting, or communicating virtually. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation
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Website
Other

Public Speaking and Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Over 20 useful tips on technical writing and public speaking. Many different categories within each topic are discussed. For public speaking tips, CLICK on the highlighted CLICK HERE at the end of paragraph 1.