Writing an eighth-grade speech on moving can help kids express their feelings.
Writing a speech forces students to practice and fine-tune their writing skills and allows them to practice public-speaking techniques and writing strategies. While kids can write about anything, a topic like moving is an experience many kids have had either firsthand or via one of their friends. This is a topic about which students usually have strong opinions.
Instructions
1. Organize your thoughts. Write down who will be listening to your speech and how long it needs to be. Write down the main points you'd like to make about moving. Don't censor yourself, just write down every idea you have.
2. Write your speech's introduction by starting with a personal story about moving. Your goal with this anecdote is to grab the audience's attention. The story can be funny or sad, but needs to be interesting. The structure of the anecdote must adhere to eighth-grade language arts standards and employ chronological order with adequate time signals so that the listeners can follow along easily.
3. Write a segue to transition from your anecdote to the first point you want to make about moving. Perhaps your point is that moving is hard on kids, that it's a big adventure or that you should never forget to take your pets. The tone and points made should meet eighth-grade language arts standards and meet the needs of the audience.
4. Write a transitional sentence to move from your first point to your second. This sentence could be as simple as "Moving was an even bigger adventure than I imagined." This sentence will make the points in your speech seem less abrupt and less like a list. Repeat this technique for your final point. Use vocabulary appropriate to the eighth-grade level and that are appropriately figurative when necessary.
5. Share a moving or surprising fact or anecdote about how moving has affected you as the conclusion to your speech. This will act as the finale of your speech, giving a final image for your audience to picture. Whatever you choose to share at this moment can be funny or sad, but it should hold the audience's attention. Continue to use proper chronological order when relaying the anecdote and eighth-grade-level vocabulary words.
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