Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Interaction in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World
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
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature
New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this lesson which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online interactive, and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly
This site provides a variety of ways for people learn how to speak publicly and the best practices in preparing and presenting speeches. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World
This lesson focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language
This lesson plan focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Managing Anxiety
This lesson focuses on tools to overcome a fear of public speaking caused by two types of anxiety, situational anxiety (stage fright) and trait anxiety.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Public Speeches
This lesson plan focuses on the types of public speeches including informative, persuasive, and speeches for special occasions. It also discusses the difference between informative and persuasive speeches. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
Other
Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: My Robot and Me
For this activity students 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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.4.4: Orally Report on a Topic or Text
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...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 14: Who Rocks Your World?
In this activity, a subject of high interest to students is the vehicle for teaching skills that may be perceived as boring to students. Nominating a performer for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame allows students to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Makes a Good or Bad Leader?
After deciding on the criteria of a good leader, students research either a good or bad leader, create a class presentation of that person which focuses on his/her impact on history. Students then write and perform a three to four minute...
CPALMS
Cpalms: A Piece of Cake
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson plan, students will present their opinion through drawing, writing and speaking. Students will enjoy discussing their favorite animals, pizza and cake. Students will learn about...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Rehearsing the Speech
Students will learn ways and reasons to rehearse for a speech.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Preparing Sensory Enhancements
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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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider
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: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively
This lesson focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and metaphor.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: A Day in the Life of an Ancient Egyptian (Lesson Plan)
A lesson for exploring the daily lives of ancient Egyptians from every social class. Students select one class and develop a creative class presentation to share their findings.
Teachnology
Teachnology: English Language Arts Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.
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Creating a Family History
What do you know about creating a family history? This site offers a complete lesson plan for developing a sense of how your own family history fits into the bigger picture of the world's history.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...