Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.3D Grade 4 CPI 5

 

Standard: 3.3 Speaking

 

Strand: D - Oral Presentation

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 - The student will maintain audience interest during formal presentations, incorporating adequate volume, proper pacing, and clear enunciation.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·               Students deliver a one-minute radio ad in which they persuade classmates that their brand of toothpaste is best.

 

·               Students practice telephone etiquette. They role-play making phone calls to friends trying to convince them to help with some enterprise, such as dog walking, snow shoveling, or car washing.

 

·               After reading different library books, students are asked to prepare a 30-second radio or video commercial to advertise their book so their listeners are encouraged to read it. On presentation day, students periodically deliver “a word from our sponsor” to publicize their books.

 

·               Appreciation and understanding of reading material can be greatly enhanced when students read aloud or act out a favorite story scene. After a whole-class book reading, groups choose a favorite scene to act out. Students choose the narrator and roles, create dialogue, and present their mini-scene to the class.

 

·               Students select a text of choral poems, such as Paul Fleischman’s “Joyful Noise.” The class is divided into two sections and choral reads so that each section re p resents one voice.

 

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·        From Research to Oral Production