Organizing Idea
ORAL LANGUAGE 4: Students expand vocabulary and analyze morphemes to communicate in multiple contexts.
GR. 4 - 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 skills clarify intent and build relationships?
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Learning Outcome: Students examine and demonstrate how listening and speaking support connections and clarify understandings. |
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Oral traditions can support connections to
Stories presented in oral traditions can reflect connections to spirit, land, universe, time, and people.
Protocols for sharing information may vary by source, context, community, or culture. |
Oral traditions can connect the speaker and listener in experiences of the past or present that help prepare for the future. |
Describe personal connections to spirit, land, universe, time, or people revealed through oral traditions.
Discuss protocols used to share oral traditions. |
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Respectful interactions included behaviors that consider the contributions, feelings, points of view, and needs of participants. Phrasing and pausing work together to
Projection is the directing and supporting of the voice toward an intended target. Projection is a combination of breath, clarity, and intentionality. |
Listening and speaking skills can be applied and adapted to support respectful interactions. |
Contribute respectfully to a variety of interactions that involve listening and speaking.
Identify opinions or points of view shared in conversations or texts that are listened to.
Select appropriate volume, intonation, phrasing, and pausing to create a desired effect when speaking or presenting.
Project voice appropriately for the audience and situation. |
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Listening includes restating key points or ideas and making personal connections.
Listening to texts can expand vocabulary, understandings, and personal views. |
Listening involves playing an active role in understanding the speaker and supports collaboration. |
Demonstrate active listening when engaging in collaborative work.
Use a variety of listening strategies to support understanding. |
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A combination of verbal and non-verbal language can be used to enhance clarity or create effects when communicating. |
Communication can be enhanced through adjusting verbal and non-verbal language. |
Adjust verbal and non-verbal language to enhance clarity or create effects when communicating. |
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Presentations can be prepared by
Speaking cards can be jot notes or cue cards that contain key points to support speakers. Visual aids can be digital or non-digital, such as
Presentation delivery includes
Communication choices and styles differ from speaker to speaker. |
Presentations can be prepared and delivered to engage, inform, persuade, or entertain an audience. |
Plan ideas and details in a logical manner, including introductions and conclusions.
Present information that engages, informs, persuades, or entertains an audience.
Share a verse from memory, demonstrating emphasis, pausing, and phrasing that enhance the presentation.
Integrate visual aids to enhance communication.
Vary word choice to appeal to an audience.
Participate in presentations as a respectful audience member. |
