Organizing Idea
ORAL LANGUAGE 3: Students examine and apply listening and speaking skills, processes, or strategies in a variety of formal and informal interactions.
GR. 3 - ORGANIZING IDEA: ORAL LANGUAGE
Listening and speaking form the foundation for literacy development and improve communication, collaboration, and respectful mutual understanding.
Guiding Question: In what ways can listening and speaking be enhanced to improve oral communication?
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Learning Outcome: Students examine and apply listening and speaking skills, processes, or strategies in a variety of formal and informal interactions. |
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Throughout history, languages developed orally before being written.
Stories can last and be retold over long periods of time.
Oral traditions support interactions between generations of people, such as
Traditional knowledge shared through oral traditions can
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Oral tradition is listening and speaking to pass information from generation to generation. |
Investigate oral traditions that have been shared over time.
Discuss how oral stories show respect for traditional shared knowledge.
Share information of personal or cultural significance passed between generations of people. |
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Dialogue is an exchange of ideas, information, or opinions.
Effective dialogue includes
Speaking involves grouping and separating words through phrasing and pausing.
Pauses can be used to support meaning or create emphasis.
Speaking can be supported through
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Listening and speaking can enhance the exchange of ideas, information, or opinions. |
Engage in dialogue to express and understand messages.
Examine the effectiveness of dialogue in learning and social interactions.
Identify where phrasing and pausing can support understanding or create effects.
Support speech through relaxation, breathing, or posture.
Consider the contributions of others when exchanging ideas or opinions. |
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Listening strategies include
Texts that are listened to can build
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Listening can enhance interactions and learning. |
Use a variety of listening strategies to enhance interactions and learning. |
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A combination of verbal and non-verbal language can be used to communicate ideas, information, and feelings. Effective communication considers
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Communication can be supported by integrating verbal and non-verbal language. |
Combine verbal and non-verbal language to enhance communication.
Adjust voice quality, audibility, articulation, or clarity to communicate effectively. |
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Preparation supports effective communication through
Presentations can be improvised or prepared.
Presentations can be delivered in different ways, including
Thoughts and ideas in speech can be grouped together in logical sequences.
Effective communication involves consideration of an audience’s
Audience participation and behaviour may affect the presenter or other audience members. |
Presentations share stories, ideas, or information with an audience. |
Group relevant ideas, events, or information in a logical sequence when presenting.
Develop communication skills through individual or group presentations.
Present dramatizations of characters and events encountered in texts.
Share a poem from memory with some awareness of phrasing and pausing.
Compose and share a short speech or oral report.
Participate in presentations as a respectful audience member. |
