Donielle Speranza
Christine McDonald
Anthony Sylvester
The 5 Types of Speech
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To Stimulate (What do you want your listener to feel?)
To Inform (What do you want your listener to know?)
To Persuade (What do you want your listener to think or
believe?)
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To Activate (What do you want your listener to do?)
To Entertain (What do you want your listener to have
experienced?)
“I Have A Dream”
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What purpose does this speech serve?
Common Speeches and
Performances
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Book talks
• Literature Circles
• Debates
• Dramatic Monologues
Group/Class Discussions
• Presentations
• Reader’s Theater
• Story Telling
Standards for Speaking and
Listening
Listening and Speaking Strategies
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Formulate adroit
judgments about oral
communications
Deliver focused and
coherent presentations
w/ clear and distinctive
reasoning
Use gestures, tones, and
vocabulary tailored to the
audience
Speaking Applications
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Deliver polished formal
and previously planned
presentations that
combine traditional
rhetorical strategies of
narration, exposition,
persuasion, and
description,
demonstrating a
command of standard
English
FOCUS QUESTIONS
Who is your audience?
 What is the purpose of your presentation
or speech?
 Which resources– visual aids, props,
machines– will you need to make this
presentation?
 What does your audience care about
that you can link to your speech to draw
them in?
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Tricks of the Trade for Student Speakers
Tell stories that will draw in the audience
 Use humor to help relax and entertain the
audience
 Connect with the audience to establish
sincerity
 Incorporate compelling visuals—video,
cartoons, art, presentation graphics- that
will immediately capture the audience’s
attention
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Four Types of Reading
According to Burke, “the most common
form of speaking that student’s will do is
reading aloud” (p.233).
Choral Reading
Quaker Reading
Interrupted Reading (Ideal for ESL
students)
Dramatic Reading
POLONIUS LETTER
“Hamlet”
Provides a rare opportunity, perfectly timed
given student’s ages, for parents to sit
down and write a reflective letter, like
Polonius, give the student advice before
they head out in the world.
Burke (p. 14)
Activity : Our Twist
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Directions:
Write a “Polonius Letter” from the
perspective of a high school teacher
giving advice to a perspective graduate.
BLOG TOPICS
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Question 1:
Reflect on a speech that
you have given or
heard. What was the
purpose of the
speech? Was it
effective?
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Question 2:
Do you think the
Polonius Letter is an
effective method of
teaching? Why or
why not? If not, how
would you go about
teaching a similar
activity?