Standard 1
Oral Language-Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.

Objective 1
Develop language through listening and speaking.

• Identify specific purpose(s) for listening (e.g., to gain information, to be entertained).
• Listen and demonstrate understanding by responding appropriately (e.g., follow multiple-step directions, restate, clarify, question, summarize, elaborate formulating an opinion with supporting evidence, interpret verbal and nonverbal messages, note purpose and perspective, identify tone, mood, emotion).
• Speak clearly and audibly with expression in communicating ideas (i.e., effective rate, volume, pitch, tone, phrasing, tempo).
• Speak using complex sentences with appropriate subject-verb agreement, correct verb tense, and syntax.

Readers' Theaters by A. Shepherd

Large Resource for Readers' Theaters Scripts

Listening Games and Activities

Activities to Build Listening Skills

Listening Quiz: Excerpt from Jack London's "Nothing That Ever Came To Anything"

Cool Listening Activities

A Room for the Night Audio - Ghost Story

Short Audios with Quizzes