South Dakota ELA 2.SL.5

ELA2nd GradeSpeaking & Listening

The Standard

Create audio recordings, visual displays, performances, or media presentations of stories or poems to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students turn a story or poem into a recording, visual display, or short performance. They use images, voice, or movement to show an idea or feeling.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can show a feeling from a story or poem through voice, expression, or visual details. They can explain one choice they made and how it helps the audience understand.
Common Misconceptions: Some students think a drawing only needs to show what happened, not how someone feels. Others read in a flat voice or add pictures that do not match the words.
How to Assess It: Read these two poem lines: "Rain taps the window / I curl up with my blanket." Ask students to make a quick drawing or a 15-second recording that shows the speaker's feeling, then explain one choice they made.

Lesson moves

Give pairs paper puppets and a familiar story; have them stage one scene with faces and voices that show how a character feels.
Ask, "Which line in our class poem sounds worried, and how could your voice or drawing show that?"
Play Mood Switch: read the same two lines in a happy voice, then a worried voice, and let classmates name the clues.
Make a 20-second recording of a favorite poem for a younger class, using pauses and voice to show its feeling.

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