Speaking Skills Lesson Plans

Students continue their public speaking skills by writing an either/or speech. Individually, they complete an outline on what they want to discuss and give their speech to the class. To end the lesson, they complete a rubric for each speaker and offer constructive criticism.

Students through fast research and practice are given the opportunity to cultivate their unique speaking skills through presentations in front of their peers. They strengthen their critical thinking skills while preparing what they quickly have to present. Each student presents an impromptu extemporaneous speech.

Students examine public speaking skills. In this persuasive speech lesson, students view and discuss 2 video segments regarding a Chinese school government election. Students prepare and deliver persuasive speeches that require them to describe how they would improve their school.

Students sharpen their public speaking skills by explaining connections between a famous quotation and their own lives. They lengthen their speaking time, organize ideas in outline form, and complete rubrics for peer feedback and evaluation. Students also write and present speeches, develop public speaking skills, and apply quotations to their personal lives or to the life of someone they know.

Students examine how can technology be used as an asset in public speaking. They develop their public speaking skills through the use of a PowerPoint presentation and integrate animation into their presentation.

Use the theme of medical mystery to engage students in analyzing the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health. They will explore problem solving and mystery diseases as they practice and improve public speaking skills.

Students work in teams to create a new and unique product. They use their public speaking skills in a visual presentation that advertises their product. They build their product or draw a representation of it for their sales-pitch presentation. They also design a magazine ad for their product.

Students create poems using words cut from newspapers, read the poems in the poetry slam format, and then compile the poems into a book. They reinforce knowledge of poetry. They demonstrate creative-thinking and speaking skills.

Students develop their speaking skills. In this oral communication lesson, students read "One Hen" by Katie Smith Milway and work in groups to discover how making a small loan to the main character in the story had positive effects. Students present their findings to the class.

Students analyze the impact of the radio on American history. In this radio history lesson, students comprehend the reach of popular culture in the 1920s through listening to a student-created radio program detailing the various events, people, and issues of the time. Students develop creative writing and public speaking skills by preparing 2 minute radio sketches to record in front of their peers. Students identify a 1920s historical/social event or figure to produce their sketch on. &