1Minute Speak-Out: Writing and Speaking Activity with Lesson Plans

This game gives students one minute to Speak-Out on fun and thought-provoking topics, like Tell us a story about the time you encountered an alien or Tell us why going to school is unnecessary nowadays, and becomes the foundation for common core writing and speaking lessons drawn from common core objectives for opinion, explanatory, descriptive, informational, and narrative writing that can be used throughout the year, again and again.

In this (13 page) packet you will find:

• 30 Printable topic cards
• Printable Lesson Plan for a Whole Class Writing Lesson (1 hour and ready to use for your sub plans)
• Printable Lesson Plan for a Group Approach to a Writing Lesson (1 hour and ready to use for your sub plans)
• Printable Student Directions for a Speak-Out Center
• Printable Directions for using the game as a Brain Break or to focus students at the start of any Language Arts lesson

(Make it your own for an observation evaluation and earn a "distinguished. I did.)