Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Speaking and Listening SL.6.4
Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
This standard might as well be called "Giving Speeches 101," because that's exactly what it is. As long as the student says something relatively focused and doesn't collapse into a blubbering heap halfway during his or her speech, this standard should be pretty easy to meet. Watch out for the super silent types, too—it's your job as the teacher to consolingly tell them that the world won't end if they raise their voice by just a couple decibels.
Aligned Resources
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: To Speak or Not to Speak… Freely
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching Esperanza Rising: Everything Esperanza: A Dramatic Presentation
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Walk Two Moons: Movie Makin'
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Graveyard Book: The Graveyard Book: The Lost Chapter
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- Teaching Walk Two Moons: An Adage a Day…
- Teaching The Graveyard Book: It Takes a Graveyard
- Teaching The Graveyard Book: R.I.P.—Is That All You've Got to Say?
- Teaching Esperanza Rising: To Strike, or Not to Strike? That Is the Question!
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Number the Stars: Good to See You Again…
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Island of the Blue Dolphins: From Cave Dwellers to Cave Researchers
- Teaching Julie of the Wolves: Who Are You, Really?
- Internet Safety and Ethics: The Golden Rule Goes Online: Preventing and Stopping Cyberbullying
- Internet Safety and Ethics: Oh No, You Didn't!: Internet Dangers and Strategies for Staying Safe
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: Civil War Uniforms
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Google Maps: A Modern Tool for a Modern Rat
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching Esperanza Rising: Family Ties
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Teaching The Witch of Blackbird Pond: Wethersfield, CT: Then and Now
- Using Internet Browsers and Email: Media Map: What's Up With Your Internet Usage?
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Rats on the Run
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: The Great Lab Rat Debate
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?