Compose a sample letter to families outlining your plan to help ...

[joblessjake]

Compose a sample letter to families outlining your plan to help students become better communicators. Include in the letter specific activities or suggestions for parents to reinforce at home.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The Common Core National Standards (2010) include six anchor standards for speaking and listening. Explain these six anchor standards.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[coreycathey]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: Activities to suggest in the letter include modeling, role-playing, read alouds, discussions, and summarizing.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 3. Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. 4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. 6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.