Standard 3.3D: Language Arts Literacy

 

Standard: Speaking

 

Strand: Oral Presentation

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators: The student will use a scoring rubric to prepare, evaluate, and improve the oral presentations of self and others.

 

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.

 

·               Students use a narrative poem, such as “Casey at the Bat,” as the basis for a news report that they write and then broadcast over the school’s P.A. system.

 

·                The teacher reviews New Jersey’s Speaker’s Checklist with students to guide their preparation of a three-minute oral presentation. Students then use the checklist to evaluate classmates as they make their presentations.

 

·               As part of a unit on persuasive thinking, writing, and speaking, students develop a rubric that they will use to rate their own and other students’ speeches. As individual students take turns making a persuasive speech, the audience lists important points concerning content and organization and then rates each speech using the rubric. In small groups, students compare their ratings and reasons for them.

 

 

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