Speech Learning Story - Term 3

Learner:   Jessica                                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area:  Literacy                                                                              Date: Aug 2015

Learning Observed

This term all learners in LH1 wrote a speech on a topic of their choosing.  Oral language is an important skill and Jessica began to learn some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of the oral presentation.  Jessica learned about emotive language features such as the use of adjectives; persuasive features such as rhetorical questions, repetition, quotations, statistics, contrasts and lists of three ; and varied sentence structures like statements, questions, exclamations and commands.  She learned about the structure of a speech including introductions, endings, sequencing words and and how to make her point clear. Jessica also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger.  This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  Jessica did a superb job of being persuasive and represented the Pukekos in the school Speech Competition.  Ka Pai!

Evidence of learning

Jessica’s Speech                                                    Oral Language Rubric Here   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEguQ90fNY Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on why we should have Minecraft in Education- she made everyone wonder what the possibilities would be if we had Minecraft at school!  She connected with her audience using emotive language and confident delivery - in her hapu group and at the school competition. She collaborated with other learners while practicing her speech and responded to feedback and lead the discussion, writing and providing of feedback and feed-forward to the other learners when they did their speech or poem.  Her public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. We were very proud of Jessica representing us - the Pukekos!- at the Speech Finals- she is a real asset to our OrmPS whanau.

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post embed the oral rubric into her learning pathway and a copy of you presenting the speech (get the Swivel copy from Mr McNeil and upload to the LH1 Youtube channel) practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section