S & L Response Jessica

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1.a
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
To address this standard we practice engaging in sharing.   Typically on Monday's and Fridays we do a verbal sharing and each child takes a turn telling what they are excited to do over the weekend and on Monday we share what they have done over the weekend.  Also, each day is a child's day to bring in something to share and talk about.  Questions and comments are taken from the audience.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.4
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
In a roundabout way we do this in our narrative writing.  A big part of the pre-writing process is thinking of their story, and telling it orally.  Then they sketch it out on post-it notes and then telling their story again to me using as much detail as they can.  I think a step I could do in writing would be to have them practice rehearsing it a bit more so that they really have it down (especially my lower writers) who often forget their story.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5
Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
I think this one can really connect to the last one in that for my struggling writers who often forget their story, I am looking to incorporate some sort of technology to help them.  I am thinking of using something like story creator? or a similar app (which I have used in the past) to have them take pictures of their pages and then rehearse what they want to say for that page on the i-Pad .  Then as they are writing, they can refer back to their recorded voice to remember what they wanted to say.