Neha's Speech Learning Story

Learner: Neha                                                                           Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area:  Literacy                                                                              Date: Aug 2015

Learning Observed

This term all learners in LH1 wrote a speech on a topic of their choosing.  Oral language is an important skill and Neha refined her knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of her oral presentation.  Neha 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 and how to make her point clear.  Neha also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger.  This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  I was so impressed with how Neha used humour and persuasive techniques to convince the audience why kids should learn to play an instrument.

Evidence of learning

Oral Language Rubric Here      Neha's Speech Video- youtube Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Neha cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on Why kids should play a musical instrument- she made everyone wonder why they weren’t a musician!  She connected with her audience using emotive language and confident delivery - in her hapu group and at the school competition. 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. We were very proud of Neha representing us - the Pukekos!- at the Speech Finals- she is a real asset to our OrmPS whanau.  Ka Pai!

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post embed the oral rubric into her learning pathway and a copy of you presenting the speech (get the Swivel copy from Mr McNeil and upload to the LH1 Youtube channel) practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section