Speaking

When you plan your lesson for your Language Arts classes, you need to have your curriculum guide by your side. Contrary to what most people think, you should never let the textbook be your guide. The objectives for your lesson come from the curriculum and if there is something in the textbook that fits with that, then good. It makes it much easier to plan.

Let’s take a look at a common objective in Language Arts:
“Students will make personal connections to the text and share their ideas in a variety of ways.”

This objective leaves the door wide open for a whole host of possibilities. You might have three Grade 1 or Grade 5 classes in the same school and the objective is the same. The expectations are different for each grade level and the three teachers can teach completely different lessons and still achieve that objective.

What part does writing and speaking play in achieving this objective? Let’s start by looking at what writing and speaking actually mean in the classrooms of today. Students are expected to communicate in various ways – through role-play, thinking out loud, small and large group discussion and by writing. Connecting with the text invites the students to give their own interpretation of what they read. They can use small group discussions and speak their minds by discussing the text with a group of classmates. This is often the strategy most teachers use in the higher grades where you have students that tend to be too shy to speak out in class.

Although discussion is common in the Primary classroom, quite often the teacher has to draw out the student responses by asking questions, such as:

How did that story make you feel? Why?

Did you like the main character? Why or why not?

What would you have done differently? Why?

Would you have done the same thing as …?

I’m not saying you can’t become good with software, but it’s not going to be an instant thing. It will take time and you need to be aware that there is a big difference between typing and speaking your articles

Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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