Public Speaking Assessment Rubric for 4/5A 0 1 2 3 Reading Palm cards. Not Occasionally glancing up Uses palm cards occasionally Uses no palm cards, but looking up. from palm cards but gives lots of effective eye interacts fully with audience Eye Contact contact. ie- looking into peoples eyes Mumbling. Very Monotone Some expression a few times Experimenting with- Consistent use of hand during speech Hand gestures gestures, facial expression Expression and voice pitch at appropriate Facial Expression times Voice Pitch Very quiet. Can hardly be Inconsistent appropriate Correct use of volume control Volume heard. volume for the whole speech Sitting down or bouncing Standing still to give speech Moving around to make around movements that are connections with the Stance distracting from the speech. audience Leaning on something. Talking about different topics. Speech taking a tangent to Ideas follow a logical Strong, clear, connected Speech seems to have no another topic at the end. End sequence. At the correct time ideas, logical sequence. Clarity of Ideas direction. result is not clear in the speech Ideas are communicated at the correct time during the speech Small, simple uninteresting Some use of vocabulary Strong words with good Vocabulary words. specific to subject connections to subject. Content not related to topic Most content relevant to All content relevant to topic. Sustained ideas, relevant to Content chosen. topic. topic and with effective elaboration. Timing Not long enough or too long About three minutes Developed by the students of 4/5A 2014
Public Speaking Assessment Rubric for 4/5A 0 1 2 3 Eye Contact Reading Palm cards. Not looking up. Occasionally glancing up from palm cards Uses palm cards occasionally but gives lots of effective eye contact. ie- looking into peoples eyes Uses no palm cards, but interacts fully with audience Expression Mumbling. Very Monotone Some expression a few times during speech Experimenting with- Hand gestures Facial Expression Voice Pitch Consistent use of hand gestures, facial expression and voice pitch at appropriate times Volume Very quiet. Can hardly be heard. Inconsistent appropriate volume Correct use of volume control for the whole speech Stance Sitting down or bouncing around movements that are distracting from the speech. Leaning on something. Standing still to give speech Moving around to make connections with the audience Clarity of Ideas Talking about different topics. Speech seems to have no direction. Speech taking a tangent to another topic at the end. End result is not clear Ideas follow a logical sequence. At the correct time in the speech Strong, clear, connected ideas, logical sequence. Ideas are communicated at the correct time during the speech Vocabulary Small, simple uninteresting words. Some use of vocabulary specific to subject Strong words with good connections to subject. Content Content not related to topic chosen. Most content relevant to topic. All content relevant to topic. Sustained ideas, relevant to topic and with effective elaboration. Timing Not long enough or too long About three minutes Developed by the students of 4/5A 2014
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