Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking, Mar/2014

Teaching students the listening and speaking skills they need to succeed in school and in life is more important than ever given new college and career standards. Learn how you meet those expectations across the curriculum with this practical book's classroom examples and specific activities. Veteran teacher Erik Palmer helps you address these language arts with strategies for teaching and assessing

1. Speaking well in collaborative discussion and presentations.
2. Listening effectively in oral and multimedia communications.
3. Asking good questions and reasoning soundly.
4. Incorporating multimedia and visual displays into presentations and reports.
5. Adapting speaking styles to suit different occasions.

Understand the expectations in the Common Core’s listening and speaking standards. And explore an approach aligned to the six anchor standards focused on preparing students for 21st century communication. Filled with suggested activities for every grade level, this book is an essential resource for all teachers interested in helping students acquire core skills that cross the content areas and support long-term success.

About The Author:

Erik Palmer is a professional speaker and educational consultant from Denver, Colorado, whose passion for speaking has been part of every one of his careers. Before going into education, he was the national sales leader for a prominent commodity brokerage firm, a floor trader on a Chicago commodity exchange, and a founder of a publicly traded commodity investment firm. He left the business world and became a teacher, spending 21 years in the classroom in the Cherry Creek School District in Englewood, Colorado, primarily as an English teacher but also as a teacher of math, science, and civics.

Erik is the author of Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students and Digitally Speaking: How to Improve Student Presentations with Technology and a program consultant for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's English Language Arts program, Collections. He presents frequently at national, regional, and state conferences, and he has given keynotes and led in-service training in school districts across the United States and Mexico focused on showing teachers how to improve students' oral communication and help develop the skills necessary to speak well in school and beyond.

Erik can be reached through his website, www.erikpalmer.net, or the website he has devoted to oral communication, www.pvlegs.com.