Speech, Debate & Theatre
International Debate Education Association - Shares a variety of teaching resources.
National Core Arts Standards - Browse handbooks and filter by subject.
Public Speaking: Oracy Skills for the Real World - Use the oracy framework: building physical, cognitive, linguistic, and emotional speaking skills - to help students learn to speak on any topic and to any audience.
Student Debate Deepens Thinking and Engagement - Offers six techniques to make debates interesting and challenging in the classroom.
Speaking
About Discussion and Debate in the Classroom - Offers classroom activities to develop academic discussion and debate.
Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk - Develop confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.
Reader’s Theater - Give students a reason to read aloud. See the site offering free scripts.
Strategy Guide: Socratic Seminars - Offers practical methods for applying the approach in the classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
Listening
Active Listening in the Drama Classroom - Provides exercises that apply across all subject areas.
Draft/Multiple Listening Strategy - Improves comprehension by listening and re-listening to a text for multiple purposes.