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Communicating at Work: Facilitating Good Communication
This lesson presents learners with a list of 10 skills that improve communication. The lesson then suggests activities in which students can identify and practice these skills.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: The Communication Process
With text and diagrams, this article surveys the communication process, which consists of a message being sent and received, either verbally or nonverbally.
Virtual Salt
Virtual Salt: Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports
A helpful review of important parts of your report and ways to strengthen it. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Workforce Education: Understanding Language Registers: Effective Communication
The use of the appropriate language register or level of formality in a given situation can make the difference between a speaker's success or failure. This lesson teaches young scholars to recognize a range of language registers and the...
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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Educore: Exceeding the Common Core Speaking Standards
Erik Palmer explains that the Common Core State Standards place importance on speaking effectively in a variety of scenarios, both formal and informal. He notes that students need to have broadly applicable oral communication skills....
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Storytelling in the Classroom
There are several steps to becoming a storyteller. Find out what they are and be on your way to becoming a storyteller here! Learn how to find good stories to tell, and how to tell them to an audience effectively.
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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Ncsall: Relationship Between Reading and Speaking
The interview discusses the relationship between reading and speaking.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Failure to Communicate
This article from Stanford University outlines the oral communications course from Stanford. The article discusses the need for teaching oral communications.