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Throw away the worksheet, open your mind to exploring creativity in the classroom to meet the standards and engage your students with direct involvement . Worksheets don't grow dendrites, not that students even realize they are growing them to begin with! They also don't engage the students to where they want to be part of the learning environment.
Students speaking -> formative feedback -> students speaking -> formative feedback -> speaking fluency
The blog post also describes the role that technology has in the process.
All the work done in these presentations were done in either a kindergarten or 1st grade classroom. The students did all the paper and pencil and digital work (using KidPix) on their own. I saved their work and made it into a presentation to share with the class on the Promethean Board.