Lesson Overview
Focus: Oral storytelling, active listening, and classroom discussion skills.
- estimated_time: 20-35 minutes
- Participate in short oral storytelling activities
- Demonstrate active listening skills using prompts and follow-up questions
- Use clear voice and appropriate pacing for short presentations
- competencies: oral-language, listening, presentation
- story-starters
- listening-checklist
- Deliver a 1-minute story to a partner
- Complete a peer-listening checklist
- last_updated: 2025-08-29
Hook (1 minute)
Play a 20-second audio clip of an engaging short story excerpt; ask students to name one detail they remember.
Materials
- Story starters or short story excerpts
- Listening checklist for peers
- Timer
Guided Instruction (8-10 minutes)
- Model a 1-minute oral story using story-starter prompts.
- Teach active listening cues (eye contact, nodding, asking one question).
Practice (8-10 minutes)
Pair-share: student A tells a 1-minute story, student B completes the listening checklist and asks one follow-up question.
Independent Practice (5-8 minutes)
Rotate roles; a few students present to the whole class if time permits.
Formative Assessment
Peer checklist + teacher anecdotal notes on clarity and pacing.
Differentiation
- Support: allow a picture prompt or sentence frames.
- Challenge: extend to a 2-minute story with a clear sequence (beginning, middle, end).
Accessibility
Provide written story-starter list and allow alternative communication methods if needed.