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
What This Standard Means
Students need to record themselves reading or telling a story or poem clearly enough for others to understand. They also need to choose a drawing, photo, chart, or simple prop that helps the listener understand what happened, how someone felt, or what the speaker meant.
Mastery looks like a short recording with audible speech, a clear beginning to end, and a visual that actually supports the message. Students often get stuck reading too softly, rushing, adding unrelated pictures, or choosing visuals that decorate instead of explain.
Ways to Teach It
- Have students record a two-minute poem on a tablet, then add one drawing that shows the poem’s strongest feeling.
- Prompt students: What picture would help a listener understand your story better, and why?
- Play a student recording and ask classmates to name the main idea and how the visual helped.
- Show a weather report clip, then have students explain how the map helps the speaker’s message.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.5
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.5
Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.5
Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.3
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