Areas of development in speaking and listening include questioning, paraphrasing, eye contact, voice and gestures. Practice in speaking and listening focuses on developing comprehension. The following strategies are excerpts from the Florida Reading Initiative (FRI) training materials.

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Making Presentations

Any student who has participated in Show and Tell has made a presentation. Speaking, voice, gestures, and eye contact: successful presentations depend on many of the strategies listed above. One of Florida's English Language Arts Speaking and Listening strands for grade 5 lists the following criteria for making a presentation: Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace (LAFS.5.SL.2.4, 2014).

How can you tell if your students have hit the mark? A rubric can provide a helpful framework for assessing your students' speaking skill. The oral presentation rubric at the link below is scored on a 1-4 scale and contains three major areas: delivery; content and organization; and enthusiasm and audience awareness.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/printouts/30700_rubric.pdf