Georgia 11.P.CP.2.c
The Standard
Vary tone, pace, and nonverbal gestures as appropriate to purpose and audience. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Collaboration & Presentation
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify who is listening and what they want the presentation to accomplish. They adjust vocal expression, speed, pauses, eye contact, posture, and gestures to fit the situation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can present with clear shifts in vocal expression, speed, pauses, eye contact, posture, and gestures. The choices fit the audience and make the message easier to follow.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think speaking louder always makes a presentation stronger. They may rush, use forced gestures, or keep the same delivery for every audience.
How to Assess It
- Have students deliver the same 30-second school announcement to classmates and then to the principal. Ask them to name two delivery choices they changed and why.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a short script and audience cards, then have them rehearse and record two versions using different delivery choices.
Ask students to explain how they would deliver a recycling proposal differently to students, teachers, and the school board.
Play Delivery Director, where classmates call out audience and purpose cards before a speaker gives the same sentence in a fitting way.
Analyze a press conference clip and list how the speaker uses pauses, facial expressions, posture, and gestures to shape audience response.
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