Fourth Grade Listening and Speaking Standards
Listening and
Speaking
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies Students listen critically and
respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides
the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and
modulation.
Comprehension
1.1 Ask thoughtful questions and respond to relevant questions with appropriate
elaboration in oral settings.
1.2 Summarize major ideas and supporting evidence presented in spoken messages
and formal presentations.
1.3 Identify how language usages (e.g., sayings, expressions) reflect regions
and cultures.
1.4 Give precise directions and instructions.
Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
1.5 Present effective introductions and conclusions that guide and inform the
listener's understanding of important ideas and evidence.
1.6 Use traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., cause and
effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question).
1.7 Emphasize points in ways that help the listener or viewer to follow
important ideas and concepts.
1.8 Use details, examples, anecdotes, or experiences to explain or clarify
information.
1.9 Use volume, pitch, phrasing, pace, modulation, and gestures appropriately to
enhance meaning.
Analysis and Evaluation of Oral Media Communication
1.10 Evaluate the role of the media in focusing attention on events and in
forming opinions on issues.
2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar
experiences or interests that are organized around a coherent thesis statement.
Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the
organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking
Standard 1.0.
Using the speaking strategies of grade four outlined in Listening and
Speaking Standard 1.0, students:
2.1 Make narrative presentations:
a. Relate ideas, observations, or recollections about an event or experience.
b. Provide a context that enables the listener to imagine the circumstances of
the event or experience.
c. Provide insight into why the selected event or experience is memorable.
2.2 Make informational presentations:
a. Frame a key question.
b. Include facts and details that help listeners to focus.
c. Incorporate more than one source of information (e.g., speakers, books,
newspapers, television or radio reports).
2.3 Deliver oral summaries of articles and books that contain the main ideas of
the event or article and the most significant details.
2.4 Recite brief poems (i.e., two or three stanzas), soliloquies, or dramatic
dialogues, using clear diction, tempo, volume, and phrasing.