Standard 1: Speaking and Listening

Students will speak and listen effectively in a variety of situations including, but not limited to, responses to reading and writing.

5.1.R.2 Students will actively listen and speak clearly using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

• Students ask questions to better understand the topic, text, or other media presented.
• Students gain new information through the topic, text, and other media presented.
• Students use Sentence frames and question stems to ask well-formed and focused questions.  

• Teachers model and provide examples of focused and well-formed questions within the lessons of other standards, as questioning occurs organically.

• Teachers provide opportunities to practice asking focused and well-formed questions to better understand the topic, text, or other media.

• Teachers provide students with question stems or prompts to facilitate their responses.

• Sentence frames and question stems 

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback.

• Conference with individuals or groups as they are working to form their questions

• Provide opportunities for students to share questions with a partner, in a small group, or in a whole group

• Teachers model how to and provide opportunities for students to gain information through the topic, text, and other media.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback.

Supporting Resources 

Teacher Insights 

• Students need support and modeling to develop questioning skills.
• Knowing how and when to ask for help allows students to more actively participate in their own learning.
• In feedback communication receivers are not just passive absorbers of messages; they receive messages and respond to them. 

Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.