Presenting Skills

Happy Friday ALL!  It is GATEWAY season and our 3rd grade is HARD at work preparing to present to our school and our community.  It got me thinking...presenting is a life skill that we can start developing with our kiddos.  Below I am going to share some resources to support this in your classroom.

One of the ways I made sure I was hitting my speaking and listening standards in my classroom was to have students present on Fridays during our morning meeting.  Each week a student was chosen and they prepared a presentation about themselves to share with the class.  These presentations allowed us to work on eye contact, communication skills and listening skills. 

Students were given a presentation form and were encouraged to be creative. We used a rubric to help score our presentations and set goals for what we needed to focus on in the future.  

This simple system fit easily into the share part of our morning meeting routine.  

(Keep in mind, I did this with my first and 2nd grade classrooms.) 

You could also take this to the next level and have students report on stories they have written like an Author's Chair or have them research and present their findings. 

JOKES!!!!!  Who doesn't LOVE a good joke!  

This is life skill that is going to help them in their future and starting early can really set our kiddos up for success. 

Training your audience is also important.  Students need to learn to be active listeners.  How to give feed back and also get it.  This skill supports language comprehension!!!!!

This blogpost has some great ideas for getting started with presenting.  I can see our kiddos loving the Would I Lie to you activity.  I also loved using debates in the classroom! 

These videos would be awesome to use with your students!!!!  Great advice from a student's prospective. 

The CHOP is hilarious!   Please watch these!!!!!!

Share this TedTalk with your class.  This little guy is amazing! 

And the BEST part??????  It is directly related to The Science of Reading!  We NEED language comprehension to move to reading comprehension.  Hop over to this blog to learn more!