This presentation includes 16 Speaking and Listening Activities for the Social Studies Classroom! Each idea can be tailored to your specific learning environment: your grade level, your students, and the topic that you are teaching.

1. Monica
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Speaking and Listening
Activities for the
Social Studies
Classroom

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3. 21st Century Digital Skills
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• Speaking
• content creation
• Listening
• content consumption

4. Speaking Activities
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• clarity of presentation
• connection to task
• understanding audience
• incorporating digital

5. Listening Activities
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• identifying purpose
• gathering information
• preparing to respond
• incorporating information

6. Video
Journals
• record wonderings
• prepare for discussions
• practice conversation points
• build fluency
• provide prompts
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7. Student
Tutorials
• explain an idea
• incorporate digital media
• planning and preparation
• collaboration
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8. Respond
to
News
Stories
• compare accounts
• respond to a prompt
• prepare for discussions
• take a position
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9. Mystery
Skype
• prepare questions
• analyze responses
• partner with a school
• focus on community
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10. Vocabulary
Sleuths
• listen for certain words
during the day
• celebrate students putting
words into action
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11. Round
Table
Discussions
• set procedures for
conversations
• define roles of speakers and
listeners
• introduce a topic with many
positions
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12. Peer
Editing
and
Review
• provide feedback on writing
• listen to constructive
criticism
• converse about noticings
and wonderings
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13. Place
on
the
Line
• introduce a topic
• have students stand on a
line placed in the center of
the room
• take a position with agree
and disagree on each end
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14. Act
Out
Vocabulary
• share vocabulary words
• present a word or set of
words in skit
• connect vocabulary to
movements, topics, context
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15. Develop
Questions
• create questions from
listening
• connect to further research
• ask questions to presenter
• search for additional
information
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16. Pull
Out
Vocabulary
• identify key vocabulary
used by a speaker
• create a list of must-know
words about this topic
• listen with vocabulary in
mind
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17. Summarize
Key
Ideas
• listen to identify key ideas
• quickwrite after listening
• develop a one sentence
summary
• support summary with
details
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18. Teacher
Tutorials
• gather information
• pause to replay
• clarify main ideas
• incorporate mulitmedia
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19. Guest
Speaker
• invite a subject matter
expert to speak
• prepare questions based on
research
• practice asking questions
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20. Virtual
Visitor
• use digital tools to bring
new speakers
• follow listening procedures
• locate complimentary
online resources
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21. Evaluate
a
Speaker
• make a judgement
• identify bias
• pull out key information
• question the argument
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