A public speaking class is designed to help students develop lifetime skills for communicating with others in a public or large group setting. These important skills improve personal confidence and competence and ultimately help every student in their academic, social, and professional life. This Public Speaking Student Workbook is designed to help students enrolled in a basic public speaking class learn these practical and important skills of public speaking. The nine chapters and appendix provide guidelines, assignments, exercises, activities, checklists, worksheets, sample speech outlines, instructor feedback forms and self-evaluation forms. All of this information will assist public speaking students select speech topics, research ideas and supporting material, organize and outline speeches, overcome speech anxiety, prepare presentational slides, and deliver informative, persuasive, and ceremonial speeches. This workbook to especially created to accompany a public speaking textbook.

Students are lacking in communication skills now more than ever! Give your student a competitive edge! The Public Speaking for Kids program takes the guesswork out of teaching speech and presentation skills to kids. Level One of the "Public Speaking for Kids" series, was designed to help 1st-6th graders develop quality public speaking skills. While many parents just desire for their kids to get comfortable standing in front of a crowd, we believe even young students can do so much more! Help your students take command of the audience and become excellent communicators with this incrementally skill-building curriculum. The Student Workbook is meant to be used hand-in-hand with the Teaching Guide (sold separately). This 75-page, full-color workbook engages the students and provides an easy framework for speech preparation. With images assigned to each tool and technique presented, this program helps engage all learning styles in a fun and memorable way. The Student Workbook walks the student through speech preparation, skill implementation and presentation evaluation. Students are lacking in communication skills now more than ever! Give your student a competitive edge!

In this book, Erik Palmer shares the art of teaching speaking in any classroom. Teachers will find thoughtful and engaging strategies for integrating speaking skills throughout the curriculum.--[book cover]

Lucas' "The Art of Public Speaking" is the leading public speaking textbook in the field. Whether a novice or an experienced speaker when beginning the course, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations. Creative activities, vivid examples, annotated speech samples, and foundation of classic and contemporary rhetoric provide students a strong understanding of public speaking. When instructors teach from this textbook, they benefit from Lucas' Integrated Teaching Package. The Annotated Instructor's Edition and Instructor's Manual, both written by Steve Lucas, provide teaching tips and give outlines on how to use the various supplements. As a result, instructors are able to see various teaching examples, how to integrate technology, and analyses and discussion questions for video clips in class. The Annotated Instructor's Edition, Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, CDs, videos, and other supplements provide instructors the tools needed to create a dynamic classroom. This edition has a supplement to meet the needs of online classes, Teaching Public Speaking Online with The Art of Public Speaking.

"Provides the structure and content for 28 speech class lessons, including the handouts and forms needed ... Tested with 7th-11th grade students"--Page 4 of cover

A Student Workbook for Public Speaking: Speak from the Heart asks students to think critically about the speech-making process while building their mastery of the fundamental practical skills of public speaking through a series of exercises and activities. Nineteen brief chapters cover the essentials of public speaking including selecting a topic, researching your topic, organizing your topic, overcoming speech anxiety, and delivering informative, persuasive, and special occasion speeches. Each chapter includes a concise introduction to the most important skills and concepts related to each chapter topic, and offers opportunities for critical reflection on how to use each aspect of public speaking appropriately and effectively. Each chapter is paired with an activity, checklist, or worksheet that students may use to develop their speeches, assess their performance, and chart their progress in becoming competent public speakers.

PUBLIC SPEAKING: THE EVOLVING ART, 2ND EDITION/ENHANCED is a fully integrated book and technology program that matches the expectations of today's students while preserving the well-respected traditions of public speaking instruction. The text comes automatically packaged with a printed access code to a variety of online tools: CourseMate (which houses the interactive activities); Speech Builder Express, Speech Studio 2.0, and access to the eBook. Each chapter's material, both in the book and online, takes you through a sequence that starts with reading the text, moves to watching unique integrated videos, segues to companion interactive activities that ask you to apply chapter concepts in hypothetical scenarios, and then to advance work on your own speech project. A unique, practical pedagogical system in the text -- "Read it, Watch it, Use it, Review it" -- gives structure to each chapter, and directs you to the easy-to-access online material. "Apply It" Boxes give you an opportunity to use your newly-gained public speaking skills in situations outside of the classroom.