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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
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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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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Credibility Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication, students will learn about the importance of credibility in public speaking. There are four sections: defining credibility, types and elements of credibility, building credibility, and ethical usage....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
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US Department of Education

U. S. Department of Education: Teaching Our Youngest

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A publication entitled Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers created under the direction of the Early Childhood-Head Start Task Force. Available in html or PDF format, the publication...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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 Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Managing Anxiety

For Students 9th - 10th
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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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Barbara Jordan

For Students 9th - 10th
As a lawyer, a congresswoman, and a scholar, Barbara Jordan used her public speaking skills to fight for civil and human rights.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Public Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Stuttering

For Students 3rd - 5th
You have probably stumbled over your words before. Sometimes that happens because you're nervous, like if you're giving a class presentation or talking in front of people you don't know very well. Have you noticed anyone who stumbles or...
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Other

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: My Robot and Me

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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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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Leaf Group

E How: How to Write a Talking Points Paper

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
This article by Byron Walsh focuses on writing a talking points paper for a public speaker which consists of researched, accurate information provided in bulleted lists with follow up sentences on specific topics.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive unit introducing speech including key words, lessons, discussion of audience, purpose, analyzing speeches, speech components, planning a speech, quizzes, and a final assessment with rubric.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 14: Who Rocks Your World?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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McMaster University

Mc Master University: Making Class Presentations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Advice on Research and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is dedicated to computer scientists or students who are studying computer science to guide their research, writing, and presentation skills.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Makes a Good or Bad Leader?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Final Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this segment from Independent Lens, three candidates for class monitor make a final speech to grab the win.
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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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CPALMS

Cpalms: A Piece of Cake

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[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...
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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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