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Oral communication Common Core CCRA.SL.5 resources
Public Speaking Unit | Speech Curriculum | Lessons & Activities
Everything you need to teach public speaking! This printable and digital bundle is jam-packed with engaging lessons and activities your students will love! The comprehensive and easy to use lessons include directions, examples, rubrics, and more! Save time and build student confidence with this step-by-step curriculum plan! Printable PDF and Google Drive versions for ALL lessons are included. **By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the full value of the individual resources! You will
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6th - 9th
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Skit Template | Skit and Reader's Theater Blank Script Template
Blank template for students to work in cooperative groups to create short skits. 2 Versions: 1 with border1 without borderCreated with UDL in mind.Scaffolded to help younger students.Set up for groups of 4 students or less.Easy to follow with directions to help guide students through the skit making process.NO PREP WORK NEEDED!
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Not Grade Specific
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Current Events Assignment
Current Events News Assignment | PDF and Digital Formats: Use this Current Events Assignment to help students stay informed about current events happening in our world. In this NO PREP activity, students examine online or print news sources to report on a current event for their class. This can be used with any non-fiction new article or text. This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages as well as Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.I
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Oral Presentations Bundle
Oral Presentations Bundle 2 Public Speaking Lessons
Use this Oral Presentations and Public Speaking Bundle 2, to help you teach your students the art of presentations specifically designed for middle school students! This comprehensive bundle is an invaluable resource. With four engaging assignments included - Good News, Product Pitch, Book Unboxing, and Spoken Word - your students will have ample opportunities to practice and enhance their oral presentation skills.What's Included In This Bundle:Detailed Lesson Plans4 Oral Presentation Assignment
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6th - 8th
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Speech Units Bundle
This speech unit bundle is a great tool for anyone teaching public speaking, language arts, or oral communication! Teaching the basics of giving a speech? Snatch up all of my public speaking units and you're good to go! The units included: Informative SpeakingPersonal Experience SpeechesIntroduction SpeechesDemonstration SpeechesPersuasive SpeechesLots of creative activities, ideas, organization tips, PowerPoints, and games are all included! Materials are also included to extend any lesson as n
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8th - 11th
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Would You Rather Writing Prompts - Speech and Debate Persuasive Speech Topics
Using Would You Rather writing prompts for persuasive speeches, impromptu speech and debate, as a team building or get-to-know you activity, to practice rhetorical appeals, or for a formal speaking assignment. This informal would you rather speaking activity is so much fun! Have you ever been caught scrambling at the last minute for speech topics? Dreaming them up, trying to make them engaging, printing, cutting, folding...I've been there, but solved this problem by curating the topics that my s
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6th - 9th
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Hot Topics Class Discussion Assignment
Hot Topics Class Discussion Assignment | PDF and Digital Formats: Use this Hot Topics Oral Presentation Assignment to engage your students in current issues and events. Try this no prep, print and go, Hot Topics Class Discussion Assignment. This oral presentation assignment can be used with any type of non-fiction text, news broadcast, documentary or video on any topic in the content areas e.g. Science, Math, History, Geography, World News. Teachers are provided with a gradual release framework
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Oral Presentations Bundle
Public Speaking Mini-lesson with TED Talks - CCSS
One of my most useful resources yet, this presentation and the corresponding worksheets help students form the public speaking skills they so desperately need. The reality is, while many fear or struggle with speaking publicly, it is an essential skill. INCLUDES: *Public Speaking Skills slides*TED Talk worksheet - works for any Ted Talk!*Basic Speech Rubric
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7th - 12th
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AVID Team Building Digital and Printable Activities
Looking for some icebreakers or teambuilding activities to build your classroom community and make fun Friday or Framework Friday planning an easy task? Then you're in the right place! These resources encourage skills like public speaking, communication, leadership, writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading!⭐OVER 30% OFF!⭐ *We have 52 resources included in this bundle!*⭐AVID Mega Bundle!⭐What's Included7 Communication/Public Speaking Resources2 30-Second Speech ActivitiesEditable
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5th - 12th
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Civil War & Reconstruction Era Project Based Learning
RECENT UPDATE 2023 - GRAPHIC NOVEL, BLOG, INFOGRAPHIC LINK, EXAMPLES & TEMPLATES. + REMOVED ALL OUTDATED LINKSMost Updated: New Google Classroom Rubric, New Google Form Planning Page, and Additional ResourcesUpdated: New Links, New examples, New instructions, and Canva links & templates.This interactive, student driven, project based learning toolkit gives teachers a perfect package to allow students to showcase and review the knowledge they have acquired after learning about the Civil W
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6th - 11th
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Mr. Harper's Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee
Dear Teachers,I’ve entitled my first book, Mr. Harper’s Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee (where he keeps trine to make us talk good) not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining gifts of articulation amongst our students. This book was developed for two purposes. The first is to provide schools with the materials needed to create two new elective courses for their students devoted to public speaking, reading and acting. The second purpose is to give our beleague
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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End of the Year Speech Assignment plus Easel Activity
An end of year activity that is an eye-opener! Give this assignment as an end of the year final project to help students learn to write a speech, present and engage an audience, and use visual displays or digital media. Keep students engaged in learning. Students will present a 3 - 5-minute speech reflecting on the people and experiences that made the year memorable. The oral presentation requires 3 x 5 cards and encourages using visual aids. Ready-made for you to pass out to your class. Include
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year Activities for Middle Grades Language Arts BUNDLE
Poetry Recitation Assignment and Rubric - Easy, No-Prep
Poetry Recitation Assignment - Did you know April is National Poetry Month? This printable includes everything you need to assign a poetry recitation project to your students.Students will learn to memorize and orally recite a poem. This packet includes:Assignment handout (detailed instructions)Memorization Tips Anchor ChartRubric (for grading the assignment)List of suggested poemsPoem assignment tracker (so teacher can keep track of the poems assigned to students)List of suggested poetry Inter
Speech Activity: Lip Sync Battle!
I use this activity as a fun way to improve nonverbal delivery skills. It could be used at virtually any time during the year, and might be a fun activity after testing or for the end of school. Additionally, I normally reserve an empty cafeteria or auditorium in order to give students plenty of room to practice. My students are actually excited to come to class when I introduce this!
Just for fun, here is my teacher model for the class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoWVqY9I4Iw
(The man i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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256 Public Speaking Topics - Impromptu Speaking & Conversation Topics BUNDLE
There are 256 speech topics in this public speaking topics bundle that can be used for impromptu speaking, speeches and debates, team-building activity, to practice rhetorical appeals, or for a formal speaking assignment. Have you ever been caught scrambling at the last minute for good public speaking topics? Dreaming them up, trying to make them engaging, printing, cutting, folding...I've been there, but solved this problem by curating the topics that my students engaged with the most and crea
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7th - 10th
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Slogans and Advertisements Ads Lesson Unit ELA Middle or High School EDITABLE
This lesson is WAY MORE than just a one-day lesson. It can be spread over a week or more. It is all on Google Slides. It can be used bydistributing it to everyone, or as a whole-class presentation. Teach your students the basic elements of ads, and how to create one with a target audience in mind. It is ideally for middle school or junior high but could be easily adapted to high school. It is completely editable so you can make it work for your students. I included the answers to the questions t
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6th - 10th
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You're the Expert Project // Perfect End of Year Activity // Presentations
This project is the PERFECT activity for the end of the year. Maybe testing is done, they've taken their final; but you don't want to just show movies for the next few weeks? Have them do an Expert Project.I hate to shamelessly self-promote but this is one of the most successful projects I've ever done in class. Students come into my class each year so excited about doing the Expert Project. It's like a rite of passage and even though it's scary, they love it!The Expert Project can be utilized i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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How to Use a Paper Towel: Viewing Guide
Meet internet viral sensation Joe Smith in this incredibly powerful five-minute inspirational TED Talk from April 2012. Smith's funny and practical speech on how to use only one paper towel is a hit. Smith's fascinating use of persuasive appeals to present his argument will captivate students and provide a model to emulate. The activity packet includes a 10 question viewing guide with an extended response for writing or discussion. After the viewing guide, students can undertake an engaging one-
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: STEM Topics Viewing Guide Bundle
The Crucible Researched Speech Activity Comparing to McCarthyism
This research and formal speech activity is a great way to introduce your high school ELA students to Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. The activity has your students investigate why the playwright chose the analogy comparing two historical crises in America. Students make connections between the Second Red Scare orchestrated by Joseph McCarthy in 1950s America and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1600s in New England. This researched formal speech activity requires students to research The Sec
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9th - 12th
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Seminar Presentation
This bundle elevates student voice, creativity, and organizational clarity while simplifying the groundwork for final presentations. Our carefully structured unit (workshop) showcases students’ CCLS skills for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language and is appropriate for high school or college-level instruction. We have included nine resources (Google slides custom formatted to 8.5 X 11) that can be projected on a screen and printed for individual student use. You’ll find:35 Google
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Capstone for All course
PUBLIC SPEAKING Informative Speech (Unusual Topics) | Speech to Inform
Looking for an engaging unit plan for the speech to inform? This unit is easy to implement and helps high school students develop a critical level of public speaking confidence. Students select speech to inform topics from the category, "unusual or otherwise interesting."This comprehensive unit provides secondary ELA/English and public speaking instructors with all of the tools they need to successfully teach the speech to inform. This unit is designed to make teaching easier and learning more f
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: PUBLIC SPEAKING 6 Public Speaking Units for High School Speech
Mr. Harper Makes Us Speak and Read Totally Good ... er
Note:This book has been edited and updated for 2022. It includes the new project "The Box" which has become a new favorite. What I wrote below still applies, but I would simply tell you that if you enjoyed the first book, you will find the same pleasure in this one. The difference lies in that there are more oriented projects in this book.Dear Teachers, I’ve entitled my second book, Mr. Harper Makes Us Speak and Read Good ... er not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Fantastic Beasts & Horrible Monsters: A Monster Research/Presentation Assignment
This no prep research and presentation activity includes a rubric, explanation handout, list of specific, detailed monsters for research, and two sample power point presentations and is perfect as daily student bell work presentations or a two-to-three day research and presentation project. It can be used for any unit or course designed around world mythology, such as a Harry Potter or fantasy unit, creative writing, speech, and mythology course. Students love learning about mythical monsters, a
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6th - 12th
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Kindergarten ELA: Speaking & Listening | CCSS SL.K.1-SL.K.6
This resource has everything you need to assess kindergarten students on the ELA standard Speaking & Listening SL.K.1-SL.K.6. Also included are grading rubrics for each standard and a data tracking sheet.This includes in detail:Kindergarten Standards, Speaking & Listening:Comprehension and Collaboration:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.CCSS.ELA-LITE
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K
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