CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.6
The Standard
Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
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 use a voice loud enough for listeners to hear. They put their thoughts, feelings, or ideas into clear words that others can understand.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student faces the listeners and speaks at an understandable volume. The student shares a clear idea and can repeat or explain it when asked.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students whisper, shout, mumble, or turn away while speaking. Others give one-word answers or point without explaining what they mean.
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of children at a playground. Ask each student to tell what is happening and how one child might feel, using a voice the group can hear.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have students build a small block structure, then explain to a partner what they made and how they made it.
Ask students to draw a favorite classroom activity, then tell the group what they like about it and why.
Play Volume Match by showing whisper, partner, or group cards and having students say the same sentence at the matching level.
Set up a pretend lunch counter where students clearly order an item and answer a follow-up question.
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Where This Standard Sits
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7.4
Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.4
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.4
Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.6
Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
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