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All teachers at all grade levels in all subjects have speaking assignments for students, but many teachers believe they don't know how to teach speaking, and many even fear public speaking themselves. In his new book, Well Spoken, veteran teacher and education consultant 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. Palmer stresses the essential elements of all effective oral communication, including:, Building a Speech: Audience, Content, Organization, Visual Aids, and Appearance, Performing a Speech: Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed, Evaluating a Speech: Creating Effective Rubrics,' Guiding Students to Excellence Well Spoken contains a framework for understanding the skills involved in all effective oral communication, offers practical steps and lesson ideas that any teacher needs to successfully teach speaking in a variety of situationsfrom classroom discussions to' formal presentationsand includes a set of tools for studentsfrom how to grab the audience's attention to how to use emphatic hand gestures and adjust speed for effect. Discover why, year after year, students returned to Palmer's classroom to thank him for teaching them how to be well spoken. You may find, after reading this book, that you have become a better speaker, too.

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"This is the most comprehensive book, written with delightful style and humor and above all with details that are specific and instructive. Well Spoken has the answers." - The Gifted Education Communicator
"A must for any educator who values public speaking and wants to impart that value on to their students." -
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"Palmer's new book is perhaps the best resource for teachers of any content area. It is concise, clear, and organized, with practical ideas and suggestions that can easily be implemented into any classroom, not just English classrooms." - Seeking Serenity in Chaos blog
"I have already seen an improvement based on his ideas for building a speech that enhanced what I was already doing." - Snapshots of Mrs. V blog
"The teaching strategies and curriculum laid out in
Well Spoken are very clear and could easily be adapted to any age level." - EducationWorld.com

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Erik Palmer is an educational consultant from Denver, Colorado.  He is a frequent presenter at national, regional, and state conferences.  He has given keynotes and led workshops for districts across the US and schools around the world.  Palmer focuses on two topics: improving oral communication (student and adult) and updating instruction.  

He is the author of several books including Well-Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students (Stenhouse Publishers, 2011); Digitally Speaking: How to Improve Student Presentations with Technology (Stenhouse Publishers, 2012); Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking (ASCD, 2014); Researching in a Digital World (ASCD, 2015); Good Thinking:Teaching Argument, Persuasion, and Reasoning (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016), Own Any Occasion: Mastering the Art of Speaking and Presenting (ATD Press, 2018).

Palmer is a program consultant with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt contributing to their Into Reading and Into Literature language arts programs.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (April 1, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1571108815
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1571108814
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 - 12
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.37 x 9.02 inches
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Erik Palmer is an educational consultant from Denver, Colorado. He is a frequent presenter at national, regional, and state conferences. He has given keynotes and led workshops for districts across the US and schools around the world. Palmer focuses on two topics: improving oral communication (student and adult) and updating instruction.

He is the author of five books: Well-Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students (Stenhouse Publishers, 2011); Digitally Speaking: How to Improve Student Presentations with Technology (Stenhouse Publishers, 2012); Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking (ASCD, 2014); Researching in a Digital World (ASCD, 2015); Good Thinking:Teaching Argument, Persuasion, and Reasoning (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016); and Own Any Occasion (ATD, 2017).

Palmer is a program consultant with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt contributing to their into Reading and into Literature language arts programs.

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Customers find the book provides useful information and practices for teaching public speaking. They find the techniques easy to understand and apply in any classroom. The book offers practical, engaging learning experiences for building talks and the PVLEGS rubric is very helpful. Readers describe it as a quick read with lots of usable tips and examples. Overall, they consider it worth the money and of great value to teachers who have little experience with public speaking.

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Customers find the book useful for teaching speech. They appreciate the helpful guidance and practical examples. The book provides useful information for developing speaking skills in students.

"...By doing so, the listener provides the speaker with critical peer evaluation that can positively impact his/her talks, too...." Read more

"...find, however, are a few activities, suggested rubrics, and all manner of advice, some better than others...." Read more

"...I found this book and devoured it! So much useful and teachable information. It's easy to read, relatable, applicable. I absolutely recommend it!..." Read more

"...My students enjoy the activities and the rubrics help guide them really well. I'm very satisfied with this book!" Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and understand. They say it's well-written, relatable, and applicable. The techniques are explained in a digestible way that helps prepare for and deliver a speech. The book offers practical learning experiences and is well-organized.

"...A simple, honest, direct way of teaching and evaluating communication skills. I highly recommend the purchase of this book...." Read more

"..."up front" but this approach really helped with his confidence, preparation and presentation and even with other everyday communication situations...." Read more

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"...So much useful and teachable information. It's easy to read, relatable, applicable. I absolutely recommend it! It's fantastic!..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's pacing. They find the PVLEGS rubric helpful for building talks. The book provides activities, suggested rubrics, and advice.

"...engaging learning experiences for building talks and the amazing rubric of PVLEGS. Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed...." Read more

"...What you will find, however, are a few activities, suggested rubrics, and all manner of advice, some better than others...." Read more

"...The PVLEGS rubric was very helpful. It is a quick read with lots of usable tips and examples...." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read with useful tips and examples. They appreciate the incorporation of life, eye contact, and speed into every speech.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2020
    Well-Spoken was a GOD-SEND for this teacher of speech and theatre arts. Yet, Erik Palmer's Well-Spoken offers ALL teachers an amazing resource. In fact, Well-Spoken is my primary resource for the high school public speaking course I teach. Being 'well-spoken' and/or skilled in public speaking is a necessity. Erik Palmer makes case for preparing students for life beyond high school. Every high school student needs to engage in public speaking experiences. The book makes case that public speaking is our most vital means of communication. The need for public speaking will touch every student we teach at some time in his/her life. Communication skills, including public speaking, were ranked first among skills sought in the workforce. So, if students don't enroll in a public speaking class, Well Spoken offers any content teacher the means to teach students how to effectively build and deliver any type of talk. Well Spoken offers practical, engaging learning experiences for building talks and the amazing rubric of PVLEGS. Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed. For so many years, the rubrics used in my speech classes had way too many criteria. Erik Palmer has broken it down both Building and Delivering the Speech into a practical, yet important process. He offers instructional activities to teach students how to incorporate Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, and Speed into every speech. Six basic delivery skills using an amazing acronym. There is a rubric/checklist of both areas of speechmaking: Building a Speech/Delivering a Speech. Students engage the process of evaluation speakers by completing the Building the Speech/ PVLEGS rubric while listening to a speaker. By doing so, the listener provides the speaker with critical peer evaluation that can positively impact his/her talks, too. ANY CONTENT TEACHER will enhance his/her instruction by purchasing Erik Palmer's Well Spoken and incorporating this wonderful resource into his/her teaching practices. A simple, honest, direct way of teaching and evaluating communication skills. I highly recommend the purchase of this book. It truly was a Godsend fo this instructor.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
    I wasn't sure how to teach my 9th grade homeschooler speech class, but this book really laid it all out and made it easy abd understandable. My son is shy about being "up front" but this approach really helped with his confidence, preparation and presentation and even with other everyday communication situations. Highly recommemd!
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2011
    Erik Palmer's book does a good job of highlighting an increasingly neglected skill, public speaking. The shame is, most teachers are so preoccupied with teaching reading and writing that speaking has been all but squeezed out. Yet we'd all agree that modern society values effective speaking very much -- right or not, maybe even more than effective writing. Consider, for instance, the people who rise to the top in such areas as business and politics. I think public speaking also gets the squeeze in many classrooms due to high-stakes testing. What little time might have remained for it is now given over to practice tests, drills, and desk handouts, all in the name of higher scores, (no) thanks to the intense scrutiny these scores get every year.

    The book is straightforward and of greatest value to teachers who have done little with public speaking in the past. If you're a teacher who HAS taught public speaking, you probably won't find a lot of new ideas here. What you will find, however, are a few activities, suggested rubrics, and all manner of advice, some better than others. I disagree, for instance with Palmer's suggestion that teachers call on sporting volunteers to wing it in front of the class so that the teacher can follow with exaggerations of the common mistakes just witnessed ("um," "uh," rocking, pulling of shirt ends, etc.). While he's careful to say you must choose the right student and have the proper classroom dynamic, I think even "good sports" who play along might take it home and privately mull over it. Are you willing to take that chance? Overall, however, all the basics are here. Nothing fancy. Just speaking -- or as Palmer likes to put it, just "PVLEGS." That's Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2022
    This. Book. Is. Gold. I've been excited to teach a speech class for the first time, but had no idea HOW to go about it. I found this book and devoured it! So much useful and teachable information. It's easy to read, relatable, applicable. I absolutely recommend it! It's fantastic! Actually, I'd love to see a revised edition. The first publishing was quite a while ago, so I'm interested how the author would revise content given the vast change in social media and the need for online speaking- zoom meetings, google meet, etc.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2019
    I will start by saying that I am an untrained, inexperienced speech teacher. (Although I am a trained and experienced history teacher.) Public speaking was assigned to me as an elective this year and I've enjoyed it so much, using this book as a guide. It was the *only* book I bought and there is plenty in it to fill a one semester class. My students enjoy the activities and the rubrics help guide them really well. I'm very satisfied with this book!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2012
    This book reads quickly. It is very well laid out and full of useful information for those wishing to develop more and better speaking skills in students. I showed the book to my school superintendant, who immediately saw a way to provide a k-12 program for improving speaking skills, which we'll start to organize for this fall. He and I especially liked the rubrics Mr. Palmer provides
    since they can be adapted for any level and any curriculum area.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017
    I've been teaching speech, drama, and English in various forms since 1993 and this is the book I've been waiting for. Just the right amount of classroom and examples. Easy to follow discussion and activities at the ends of the chapters. This one is worth the money. If you are a beginning teacher or a vet, buy this book!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars THE book to have if you have to teach public speaking
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2022
    I loved this book. This summer I had to teach public speaking to foreign learners. I decided to make public speaking the central thrust of the class, but exactly how do you teach that? This book gave me t'he answers. In nitty gritty detail it spelled out how to organise and assess the teaching of public speaking. It gave me confidence to teach the course and it was a success. The students said that I was their favorite teacher .