What can I say? ? Sharing Ideas

Summary
Activity A gives every child the opportunity to speak on a given subject. Activity B provides practice in preparing a speech and deciding how to present it.

Objectives
• The children will be able share, with familiar audiences, ideas and information on topics.

• The children will be able to speak clearly, audibly and with expression.

Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade

Excerpt
The first part of the lesson is for individual or paired reading and provides some pointers for preparing an oral presentation. The actual presentations could take place at another time if necessary.

Reading/Discussion:

You?ve all been speaking since you were about two years old, right? So why do you need a lesson about speaking? Well, some people are just better at speaking in public than others. When you have to talk in front of a lot of people it gets pretty scary and there are all sorts of mistakes you can make. Here are some examples:

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