Standard 3.3D: Language Arts Literacy

Standard: Speaking

Strand: Oral Presentation

Cumulative Progress Indicators: The student will incorporate peer feedback and teacher suggestions for revisions in content, organization, and delivery.

Grade: 8

Framework Activities

· Students use a published piece of writing from their portfolio as a vehicle for improving speaking ability. Peers critique the student’s oral reading of this piece, using a previously constructed rubric. Students then reread their pieces and write an analysis of the improvements they made.

· Students select and dramatize a historical event they have recently studied or that they have read about independently. They work in small groups to prepare the dramatizations, which their classmates will evaluate using a teacher-made checklist. After their first presentation, students review and discuss the evaluations in preparation for a second presentation that the class also evaluates. Groups then compare class responses to their first and second presentations.

· Students mark a script for formal presentation. The script might be a monologue, poem, persuasive speech, etc. Even if students memorize the formal
presentation, they should mark the script for appropriate and effective oral style. Students then make their presentation to the class.

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