Johanna's Speech Learning Story - August 2015

Learner:  Johanna                                                                          Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area:  Literacy                                                                              Date: Aug 2015

Learning Observed

This term all Year 5-6 learners in LH1 wrote a speech on a topic of their choosing.  Oral language is an important skill and Johanna refined her knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of her oral presentation.  Johanna’s speech about ‘Minions’ demonstrated a growing ability to be persuasive both through the content and delivery. Johanna 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 how to make his point clear. She also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger. This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  It was wonderful to see Johanna do her persuasive speech on a topic that she is passionate about.

Evidence of learning

Oral Language Rubric Here Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Johanna cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on the minions- she made everyone wonder about these characters!  She connected with her audience using emotive language. 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. She was assessed against all four of our Ormiston Primary Vision Principles.

Next Learning Steps

Practise in front of a mirror to work on eye contact and volume of voice. Seek feedback from other learners during planning and writing stages in order to increase collaboration. write a reflective blog post embed the oral rubric into her learning pathway and a copy of you presenting the speech -Video yourself and watch to self-assess. practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section