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Ljl Seminars: Public Speaking Tips
This site provides numerous links to everything you need to know about public speaking. Some topics include Overcoming Speaking Anxiety, Hostile Audiences, Speech Preparation, Gathering Information, Elements of an Effective Speech, and...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
PBS
Pbs: Do You Speak American?
The home on the web for a television program about the nature of American English, which originally aired on PBS in January 2005. "Do You Speak American?" examines the differences in the ways American speak across age groups, ethnic...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Practicing Different Kinds of Speeches (English Iii Speaking)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to give a variety of speeches, such as informative, narrative, reflective, descriptive, and oral interpretation. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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Vanderbilt University: Heard Library: R. P. Warren: Who Speaks for the Negro?
An extensive archival collection of material that formed the core of Who Speaks for the Negro?, a book Robert Penn Warren published in 1965 of his interviews with prominent African American writers and activists whose ideas were critical...
Colorado State University
Colorado State University Writing Center: Informative Speaking
Introduction to basic concepts necessary for delivering an informative speech. Eight different areas are developed from purpose to speech delivery. Look on the right side and select the specific topic you are looking for. SL.9-10.4...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Listen Up! Speak Up!
In this lesson students are given provided many opportunities to practice both informal and formal speaking skills. They begin with informal speaking in pairs, then groups of 4, etc. Then they write several drafts of a formal speech...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Esl Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
A series of four video lessons for English language learners, focusing on listening, speaking, and pronunciation in English. The lessons focus on producing accurate sounds, listening to rapidly-spoken English, and understanding idioms...
Read Works
Read Works: Congress Speaks Spanish
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the growing number of congressmen who are learning to speak Spanish. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tickle Me Nim. Do Primates Speak Language?
Read the information about Nim, a male chimpanzee who lived in a human environment, was taught American sign language. Then complete the 5-question quiz concerning Do Primates Speak Language?
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Step Up, Speak Up!
This site offers a practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13-17 years. Step Up, Speak Up! includes a range of resources for young people and the professionals who work with...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Speaking and Listening Progress [Pdf]
This two-page printable activity is designed for classroom use by the teacher for evaluating and tracking progress in speaking and listening skills and student engagement in discussions. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss, SL.9-10.6 Adapt to...
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Educore: Exceeding the Common Core Speaking Standards
Erik Palmer explains that the Common Core State Standards place importance on speaking effectively in a variety of scenarios, both formal and informal. He notes that students need to have broadly applicable oral communication skills....
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Latimer Clarke Corporation
Physical Map of German Speaking Countries
Map of Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland showing topographical features of the German-speaking countries and their neighbors.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Games
Sixteen games containing characters from the show Martha Speaks that introduce new vocabulary through play, presenting words in proper context and providing definitions. Parents and teachers can print a list of the vocabulary words used...
Other
Spanish Speaking Countries, Nationalities, Capitals
This site provides the user with a list of Spanish Speaking countries, their capitals, their location and the nationalities of those who live there. Excellent resource! Provides a link to a map as well as a link to practice identifying...
Google
Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak: Unit Files
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, If Stones Could Speak.
PBS
Pbs the West: Chief Joseph Speaks
This Archive of the West site provides selected statements and speeches of the great leader of the Nez Perce Indians. They are reprinted from Chester Anders Fee's "Chief Joseph: The Biography of a Great Indian" which was published in 1936.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak
Sixth graders will explore history and will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation. Archaeological research provides us with stories of human history that help us understand the...
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Manner of Speaking: Analyses of Speeches
This is a collection of videos of speeches by well-known personalities and celebrities. Each one is accompanied by an analysis of the speech's structure, devices, and arguments. Some videos are excerpts from movies, some are from...
BBC
Bbc: Week of 12 23 13: Neanderthals Could Speak Like Modern Humans
How do you imagine Neanderthals to have sounded? Have you ever considered that they might sound like you? Read this article to explore what a new study now says about the speaking capabilities of these creatures.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
Contains an audio recording and a text of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes provided by the Academy of American Poets.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Persuasion: Speak Out: Ain't I a Woman Sojourner Truth[pdf]
This is a PDF file of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech to aid the cause of women's rights. Each line is numbered for easy reference.
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