Speaking Formally
Improving Discussion Questions
Building Class Cohesion Through Stories
Basic Principles
The Contemporary Classroom
100

The speaker, usually with props or visual aids, and using a subject they know well, both shows and tells "how to."

What is a Demonstration?

100

Students must be _______ participants in the learning process. 

What is active?

100

The most common way to teach students oral skills is through______.

Storytelling

100

(T/F) Listening cannot be taught. 

What is false?

100

Students are _____ seekers of knowledge.

Active 

200

The speaker tells a story, something he or she already knows very well.

What is Story Time?

200

Students should develop a ________ connection to the curriculum.

What is long-term? 

200

Class cohesion is _____ centered.

Student centered

200

According to Pineal and Jaggar's reserach, there is a positive correlation between students’ _____ _____ and ______ __________. 

What are listening skills and student achievement?

200

Students develop questions through ______.

Group discussions

300

The speaker summarizes, without notes or reading, a brief piece of interest to the class, often taken from a printed or televised news source. 

What is In or On the News?

300

These allow students to react to and explore ideas.

What is an effective question? 

300

These stories, which use themes of of fantasy, are used to teach students about storytelling 

Folktales

300

A process that enables students to use resources that they have already mastered through cultural experiences in order to understand and undertake new and more advanced academic tasks.

What is cultural scaffolding?

300

Student work is the result of _____ learning

Collaborative 

400

A small group of students discuss a topic of interest with each other in front of the class. 

What is a Roundtable?

400

Student must understand their character (dress, speech, mannerisms, etc.) for this literary activity.

What is literary dinner party? 

400

To become an effective story teller students must think about these three things.

Who, what, why

400

Two things teachers should identify in analyzing and confronting the dominant patterns in mainstream classrooms.

What is identify frequent responders/regular discussion participants and recognizing self-deprecating comments?

400

What is an example of informal assessment in the classroom?

Kid watching

500

Taking speeches or documents from the past or present historical figures and reading them to the class.

What is Hero Worship?

500

Teacher-directed questions must always promote student _____.

What is inquiry? 

500

An effective teaching strategy to develop student storytelling skills involves students creating stories based on their own ______ and _____.

Life and society

500

The 5 communicative functions of the major curricular goals for speaking.

What is expressive, ritualistic/formulaic, imaginative, informative, and persuasive?

500

What is an example of formal assessment for students oral skills?

Presentation scripts, peer reviews, self-reflections, specific grading criteria.

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