TEACHING SPEAKING AND LISTENING: THE VERBAL

CURRICULUM

Donielle Speranza

Christine McDonald

Anthony Sylvester

The 5 Types of Speech

• To Stimulate (What do you want your listener to feel?)

• To Inform (What do you want your listener to know?)

• To Persuade (What do you want your listener to think or believe?)

• To Activate (What do you want your listener to do?)

• To Entertain (What do you want your listener to have experienced?)

“I Have A Dream”

What purpose does this speech serve?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AItMg70kg&feature=related

Common Speeches and Performances

• Book talks• Literature Circles

• Debates• Dramatic Monologues

• Group/Class Discussions• Presentations

• Reader’s Theater• Story Telling

Standards for Speaking and Listening

Listening and Speaking Strategies Speaking Applications

Formulate adroit judgments about oral communications

Deliver focused and coherent presentations w/ clear and distinctive reasoning

Use gestures, tones, and vocabulary tailored to the audience

Deliver polished formal and previously planned presentations that combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description, demonstrating a command of standard English

FOCUS QUESTIONS Who is your audience? What is the purpose of your presentation

or speech? Which resources– visual aids, props,

machines– will you need to make this presentation?

What does your audience care about that you can link to your speech to draw them in?

Tricks of the Trade for Student Speakers

Tell stories that will draw in the audience Use humor to help relax and entertain the

audience Connect with the audience to establish

sincerity Incorporate compelling visuals—video,

cartoons, art, presentation graphics- that will immediately capture the audience’s attention

Four Types of Reading

According to Burke, “the most common form of speaking that student’s will do is

reading aloud” (p.233).

Choral Reading

Quaker Reading

Interrupted Reading (Ideal for ESL students)

Dramatic Reading

POLONIUS LETTER

“Hamlet”

Provides a rare opportunity, perfectly timed given student’s ages, for parents to sit down and write a reflective letter, like Polonius, give the student advice before they head out in the world.

Burke (p. 14)

Activity : Our Twist

Directions:

Write a “Polonius Letter” from the perspective of a high school teacher

giving advice to a perspective graduate.

BLOG TOPICS Question 1:

Reflect on a speech that you have given or heard. What was the purpose of the speech? Was it effective?

Question 2:

Do you think the Polonius Letter is an effective method of teaching? Why or why not? If not, how would you go about teaching a similar activity?