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Introduction to Debate Fifth Grade is to be a course to develop students' beginning awareness, understanding, and application of language arts as it applies to oral communication concepts and strategies in a variety of given settings. A majority of Fifth Grade English Language Arts standards have been included.
General Notes
The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:
• learning and practicing a variety of speech formats
• learning and demonstrating appropriate formal and informal public speaking techniques for audience, purpose, and occasion
o eye contact and body movements
o voice register and choices of language
o use of standard English
• using research and writing skills to support selected topics and points of view
o across a range of disciplines
o usihg a range of sources, including digital
• collaboration amongst peers, especially during the drafting and practicing stages
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Original Student Tutorials
Learn how to analyze multiple accounts of the same topic or event and note important similarities and differences in the points of view they represent with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify components within a galaxy such as gas, dust, stars and objects that orbit stars with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Meet Melvin the Magician! When you’re dealing with magic, things are not always as they appear. That’s what makes magic fun! Similarly, when you’re working with adages and proverbs, things are also not always as they appear. Melvin will never reveal the secrets to his magic tricks, but he will reveal the secret to figuring out what adages and proverbs mean. Learn how to recognize adages and proverbs and explain their meaning.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to recognize idioms and explain their meanings as you complete this interactive, magic-themed tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to quote accurately from a text when answering explicit questions and when supporting inferences from the text as you complete this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Student Center Activity
Students can practice answering reading comprehension questions with a text about online learning. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.
Type: Student Center Activity
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