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[Toju]

I am probably going to start a reading competition in my school as, when listening to them read, I realise that they have no skill at all in presentation delivery. So, what passages would be good for material? Not too long but intersting.

[ddeubel]

[Toju]

I recently did an exercise where I asked the students to write a first paragraph of a book. Their choice entirely about the genre and style. Some were really good and some were shocking, but that was to be expected. They are second grade foreign language high school students. What I did notice, however, was that when they came to stand up and read their paragraph to the rest of the class, the reading was absolutely terrible and more often than not unintelligible.

So, what I am thinking about doing is giving the students that want to do it a choice of passages and then to practice the delivery of one. The school thinks it might be a good idea. I just need to research further and try and find suitable passages for them.

Pedagogic value? Quite high considering the nature of these particular students - learning how to present something clearly, concisely and with real feeling is certainly important at any level.

[majolica]

we had a speech competition in our city recently and we had one section where the kids presented famous speeches... they were about middle school age. they were reading from gandhi, mlk, jfk, etc., and they did a pretty good job. we allowed them to have their speeches in front of them, but deducted for the percentage of time they had their eyes glued to the page.

how about using famous speeches like that? you could even expand it into a history section.

[ddeubel]