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Center for the Collaborative Classroom: Integrating Speaking and Listening Ccss
Integrating speaking and listening builds a positive classroom community with less bullying, increased self-confidence, and greater independence, along with the ability to work with all students. This article gives ideas for projects or...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
Students will partner read The Kite, by Alma Flor Ada. Then work together in small collaborative groups to describe the character of the mother, the children, or the kitten. Included in this lesson are video demonstrations, printable...
Success Link
Success Link: Inside Outside Show and Tell
A different take on Show and Tell that emphasizes speaking and listening skills and will engage all the young scholars in this kindergarten tradition.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Speaking and Listening: Standard English
Explains what standard English is and when it is used, the difference between formal and informal language, and non-standard forms of English such as those found in dialects.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communication: What You Can Accomplish With Public Speaking
This activity lists and discusses the benefits of public speaking including personal satisfaction, critical thinking, career advancement, social connections, and influence the world around you.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Character Education Read Alouds
This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Counting on Good Health
This multi-day lesson engages students in exploring healthy habits and components of the food pyramid. Students will describe their favorite foods that will be part of a class tasting party at the end of the days.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Significance of Ethics in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on the importance of ethics in public speaking including being honest, free from plagiarized content, no falsehoods or conflict of interest, and free from abusive language. It also discusses the qualities of an active...
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Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street Story Book Builder
Early readers will love building their own story book with Elmo, Abby Cadabby, or Cookie Monster! A perfect tool for helping identify feelings and emotions, word and letter recognition, and letter sounds.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Joan M. Wolf's Someone Named Eva [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of Joan Wolf's young adult book, Someone Named Eva, is provided on this script. Seven character roles are needed in this performance.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 01: Exploration Tubs
During this language development lesson plan, 2nd graders will explore tubs with different themes. Students will use these tubs to explore fossils, rocks, reptiles, orgnisms
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication
This lesson discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.3.1: Engage Effectively in a Range of Collaborative Discussions
Links to 175 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pass It On!
Lesson plan where students, seated in a circle, pass a bean bag around while saying a noun that corresponds to their given letter of the alphabet. Students increase speed as they progress. (Note: Book to be read at beginning of lesson...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 7: Las Compras
In this seventh unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about shopping and develop their listening, speaking, and writing vocabulary around this topic. Includes modeling of oral Spanish pronunciation and conversation,...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers:the Brain and Language: How Our Brains Communicate
An article about how the brain responds when listening and speaking.
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Story Arts: Storytelling Activities & Plot Structure Scenarios
This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support...