Public Speaking

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Know your material.

Practice/Rehearse
Know the audience
Know the place/area volume
Relax breathing exercise
- smile
-start with something else
-count 3x (1001, 1002, 1003)
6. Visualize yourself
7. Realize that people want you to succeed in that endeavor
-make yourself interesting
-stimulating thoughts by factual information (emphasize the facts)
8. Do not apologize
9. Concentrate on the message
-thought matters, not how the message was delivered
10. Appropriate body language
11. Use audio and visual aids if necessary/appropriate
12. Do not over dazzle with excessive use of animations, sound, gaudy
(striking,bright) colors
13. Do not torture your audience by putting a long document at tiny prints
-key words
14. Speak with conviction persuade, relating in a logical manner (organized0
15. Maintain a sincere eye contact
- 3 seconds
16. Know when to stop

Reading
Schema Theory
- relate to the prior knowledge (comprehension)
*life-long learning
*reading construction should take into account the process and the product
*field meaning by engaging in interaction (not a guarantee of refinement-new scheme)
*text provides directions for listeners/readers as to how they retrieve or construct
reading clue
1. Phonics
- letter names (sounds of the letters; associate with pictures)
- combination of letters and sound
Suggestions on how to teach phonics:
a. Introduce vowels first
b. Introduce visually constructive pairs
c. /f/, /s/, /v/, /m/ sounds in words
d. Variations in letter sound correspondence
e. Initial letters, middle letters then the configuration of the word
f. Word families
2. Sight Words
-frequently used words
-eased up
Suggestions:
a. Whole word
b. Look and say method strategy in which high frequency words are taught
without any conscious analysis of the letter that make up the word
Scanning important details, main idea
Skimming facts, details, information
Summarizing outline
Paraphrasing simplify, rephrase