Before your students even approach the front of the classroom to give their first go at public speaking, they need to understand speaking norms or commonly accepted practices.
Speaking norms should be partly determined by the students via class discussion; post agreed-upon norms in the class for the students to see. Conduct class discussions where students practice class norms such as Socratic Seminars. (Socratic Seminars are good situations to demonstrate appropriate questioning and responding practices.)
Next, provide students with a critique/ evaluation (rubric) with space to add the class-created norms. You may decide to add the class norms to the attached document. Below is a template for a check-list.
In order to practice identifying and critiquing using the check-list, use the following videos linked below. In order to be successful with this process, review the checklist then watch the video once without making note. Then, watch the video again making notes on the check-list.
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Helpful Resources/ Ideas:
1-Attached below are rubrics made by WVDE to assess different types of speaking situations. Review these and adapt them to your assignment and classroom.
Speaking Rubric: Argumentative
Speaking Rubric: Informative
Speaking Rubric: Narrative
2- For the kids to understand and play with the speaking norms, create a game where the students create spoofs of a particular norm in order to demonstrate what not to do during a speaking situation. This is a fun activity that will engage the students, but help them further understand the importance of speaking norms
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