Course Standards
General Course Information and Notes
Version Description
Introduction to Debate Second Grade is to be a course to develop students' beginning awareness, understanding, and application of language arts as it applies to oral communication concepts and strategies in a variety of given settings. A majority of Second Grade English Language Arts standards have been included.
General Notes
The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:
• learning and practicing a variety of speech formats
• learning and demonstrating appropriate formal and informal public speaking techniques for audience, purpose, and occasion
o eye contact and body movements
o voice register and choices of language
o use of standard English
• using research and writing skills to support selected topics and points of view
o across a range of disciplines
o using a range of sources, including digital
• collaboration amongst peers, especially during the drafting and practicing stages
General Information
Educator Certifications
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorials
Identify specific points in text, identify the supporting reasons, and describe HOW the reasons support the specific points that the author makes in a text as you read about stormy weather in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Capitalize holidays, product names, and names of places around the world as you hunt for treasure in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Identify paragraphs in a text, use key details to identify the topic of a paragraph, and identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text using the topics and details from each paragraph in this Florida-themed interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial