STANDARD 3.3 (SPEAKING) ALL STUDENTS WILL SPEAK IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES.

 

Descriptive Statement: Oral language is a powerful tool for communicating, thinking, and learning. Through speaking and listening, students acquire the building blocks necessary to connect with others, develop vocabulary, and perceive the structure of the English language. An important goal in the language arts classroom is for students to speak confidently and fluently in a variety of situations.

 

Speaking is the process of expressing, transmitting, and exchanging information, ideas, and emotions. When students listen and talk to others about their ideas, they are able to clarify their thinking. Whether in informal interactions with others or in more formal settings, communicators are required to organize and deliver information clearly and adapt to their listeners. Students should have multiple opportunities to use speaking for a variety of purposes, including questioning, sharing information, telling a humorous story, or helping others to achieve goals. Students should recognize that what they hear, write, read, and view contributes to the content and quality of their oral language.

 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:

 

A.     Discussion

 1.         Support a position integrating multiple perspectives.

 2.         Support, modify, or refute a position in small or large-group discussions.

 3.         Assume leadership roles in student-directed discussions, projects, and forums.

 4.         Summarize and evaluate tentative conclusions and take the initiative in moving discussions to the next stage.

 

B.     Questioning (Inquiry) and Contributing

 1.         Ask prepared and follow-up questions in interviews and other discussions.

 2.         Extend peer contributions by elaboration and illustration.

 3.         Analyze, evaluate, and modify group processes.

 4.         Select and discuss literary passages that reveal character, develop theme, and illustrate literary elements.

 5.         Question critically the position or viewpoint of an author.

 6.         Respond to audience questions by providing clarification, illustration, definition, and elaboration.

 7.         Participate actively in panel discussions, symposiums, and/or business meeting formats (e.g., explore a question and consider perspectives).

 

C.     Word Choice

 1.         Modulate tone and clarify thoughts through word choice.

 2.         Improve word choice by focusing on rhetorical devices (e.g., puns, parallelism, allusion, alliteration).

 

D.    Oral Presentation

 1.         Speak for a variety of purposes (e.g., persuasion, information, entertainment, literary interpretation, dramatization, personal expression).

 2.         Use a variety of organizational strategies (e.g., focusing idea, attention getters, clinchers, repetition, transition words).

 3.         Demonstrate effective delivery strategies (e.g., eye contact, body language, volume, intonation, articulation) when speaking.

 4.         Edit drafts of speeches independently and in peer discussions.

 5.         Modify oral communications through sensing audience confusion, and make impromptu revisions in oral presentation (e.g., summarizing, restating, adding illustrations/details).

 6.         Use a rubric to self-assess and improve oral presentations.

 

Link to Standard 3.3 Grade 8

 

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