CommunicationTeaching Students How to Communicate

Effectively

Melissa Wall-Smith

Common Core State Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.4

Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of

reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and

audience.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.5

Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance

understanding of presentations.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.6

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal

English when indicated or appropriate.

Purpose

“Writing online has additional purposes, beyond the traditional text purposes outlined in the Common Core

writing anchor standards—specifically, to argue, inform, and narrate. The purpose of writing for online media and

environments...includes one or a combination of traditional purposes as well as such purposes as collaboration,

exchange of ideas, self- and group reflection and feedback, and generation of new ideas.” (Drew, 2012, p. 327)

Ways to Communicate

❏ Social Media❏ Email❏ Google

Classroom❏ Skype❏ Blogging❏ Word Documents❏ PowerPoint

Blogging

What is a Blog?- Online Diary- Way to communicate with the world- Allows for daily entries, weekly- Opportunity to collaborate with

others through commenting

KidBlog

Click here to watch a lesson about Kidblog

ReferencesDrew, Sally Valentino. (2012). Open up the ceiling on the common core state standards: preparing students for 21st-century literacy—now. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56, 321–330. doi:

10.1002/jaal.00145

Leu, D.J., Forzani, E., Burlingame, C., Kulikowich, J., Sedransk, N., Coiro, J., & Kennedy, C. (2013). The New

Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension: Assessing and Preparing Students for the 21st Century With

Common Core State Standards. Neuman, S. B., & Gambrell, L. B. (Eds) Quality Reading Instruction in the Age of Common Core Standards (pp 219-236). International Reading Association.