English // Speaking & Listening
Summarising Spoken and Media Presentations
Summarise a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats including visually, quantitatively, and orally
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After listening to a talk or watching an informational video, can the learner give you a spoken summary of what the main message was in their own words?
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Topic // Mastery
What mastery looks like
What a learner can do once this topic is secure.
- Summarise the main points of a video or audio presentation in own words
- Identify key information from a graph, chart, or infographic and explain it orally
- Listen to a passage read aloud and provide an accurate summary of the content
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1 topic- Paraphrasing What You HearRequired
Speaking & Listening // Ages 9 to 10
Summarising media builds on paraphrasing text
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Summarising Spoken and Media Presentations
Ages 10 to 11 // Method
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Topic // Standards
Curriculum standards
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- Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
- SL.5.2
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