CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5
The Standard
Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Speaking and Listening Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students record themselves reading or telling a story, poem, or personal experience so listeners can hear and follow it. They add drawings or visuals that make details, ideas, or feelings clearer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students make an audible, smoothly paced recording with expression that matches the meaning. Their drawing or visual shows a key detail, sequence, setting, or feeling and clearly connects to the spoken piece.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may rush, mumble, or read without expression because they focus only on getting every word right. They may add a decorative picture that does not explain an event, idea, or feeling.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to record a 30-second personal recount and add one labeled drawing that helps the listener understand a key event or feeling.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students three picture cards to arrange, draw into a storyboard, and use as prompts for recording a short story.
Ask students to write which moment in a familiar story most needs a picture and explain what the picture should show.
Play Record and Review, where partners record two lines, listen back, and earn points for volume, pace, and expression.
Create one illustrated audio page for a class audiobook that younger students can listen to during library time.
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