Henry's Speech Learning Story - August 2015

Learner:   Henry                                                                         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 Henry refined his knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of his oral presentation.  Henry’s speech about ‘Minecraft’ demonstrated his growing ability to be persuasive both through the content and delivery. Henry 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.  He learned about the structure of a speech including introductions, endings, sequencing words and how to make his point clear. Henry 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 Henry do his persuasive speech on a topic that he is passionate about.  His iExplore is all about how we can get Minecraft at OrmPS for enhancing educational experiences too.

Evidence of learning

Oral Language Rubric Here           Henry’s Speech work                                                                   Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Henry cultivated the curiosity of others with his speech about Minecraft- he clearly it! He prompted everyone to wonder if we should have Minecraft.  He connected with the audience using emotive language and confident delivery - in our hapu group. He collaborated with other learners while practicing his speech and responded to feedback and in discussing, writing and providing feedback and feed forward to the other learners when they presented their speech or poem.  His public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. We were very proud of Henry he is a real asset to our OrmPS whanau.

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about your speech embed the oral rubric into your learning pathway practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section future speeches will be strengthened by refining the facts/research that has been done to validate what your opinion is