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English Language Arts and Literature (ELAL) Gr.2

Oral Language: Related Curriculum

Organizing Idea

ORAL LANGUAGE 2: Students examine and adjust listening and speaking to communicate effectively.

GR. 2 - ORGANIZING IDEA: ORAL LANGUAGE

Oral language: Listening and speaking form the foundation for literacy development and improve communication, collaboration, and respectful mutual understanding.

  Guiding Question: How can listening and speaking be developed to improve oral communication?

Learning Outcome: Students examine and adjust listening and speaking to communicate effectively.

Knowledge

    Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Ways of knowing are the many ways people come to know themselves and the world.

Communities can have specific protocols related to how, when, or with whom oral traditions are shared.

Protocols are practices of appropriate and respectful behaviour that are unique to groups of people.

Sharing circles are traditional Indigenous practices for listening and speaking that involve

  • everyone having an opportunity to speak
  • respectful listening when others are speaking

Oral traditions use language to support ways of knowing.

Explore how oral traditions are shared.

Participate in a sharing circle.

Identify community or cultural protocols that may influence respectful communication.

 

Knowledge

    Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Listening and speaking skills can build confidence and be developed through

  • discussions
  • formal and informal presentations
  • collaborative activities

Volume can be adjusted for purpose and audience.

Clarity of speech (enunciation) enhances the ability to be understood.

Vocal emphasis can highlight the importance of words (stress).

Listening and speaking skills can be developed to improve communication and enhance confidence.

Contribute to a variety of listening and speaking activities to build confidence in oral language skills.

Enhance clarity of oral communication through word emphasis and enunciation.

Listen for changes in vocal emphasis in oral communications.

Share a short poem from memory with appropriate volume, emphasis, and enunciation.

Knowledge

    Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Listening involves

  • maintaining focus
  • asking and responding to questions
  • using appropriate body postures and gestures
  • paying attention to the words, feelings, and behaviours of others

Listening helps to develop and maintain positive relationships in a variety of situations.

Contribute to discussions as a listener and speaker.

Listen to and follow three-step instructions.

Knowledge

    Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Different situations may have different expectations for language use.

Facial expressions, gestures, and eye contact can be used to emphasize or enhance messages.

Verbal and non-verbal language can be combined to enhance messages.

Examine messages that combine both verbal and non-verbal communication.

Enhance messages by combining verbal and non-verbal communication.

Adjust verbal or non-verbal language according to purpose and audience.

 

Oral Language