Ashmira's Speech Learning Story - August 2015

Learner:    Ash                                                                        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 Ash refined her knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of her oral presentation.  Ashmira’s speech about why boys and girls should be in separate learning spaces demonstrated her ability to be persuasive both through the content and delivery. Ash 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. Ash 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 Ashmira refined her speech through practice and responding to feedback- she was a winner in the habitat competition and did a great job at our first annual school competition.

Evidence of learning

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

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Ash cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on boys and girls being together for their learning- she made everyone wonder if this would be a positive trend in schools.  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 in discussing, writing and providing feedback and feed forward to the other learners when they presented their speech or poem.  Her public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. We were very proud of Ash 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 recording of your speech practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section future speeches will be strengthened by using some facts/research that has been done to validate what your opinion is and additional persuasive features