MS.41 Forming Key Messages (PowerPoint)
This LifeKnowledge middle school lesson (MS.41, “Forming Key Messages”) teaches students how to communicate effectively by crafting key messages tailored to a specific audience. Through commercial analysis, peer teaching, and a zoo-trip role-play scenario, students learn to define a key message, identify its components, and create their own. It includes teaching strategies, transparency masters, a case-study worksheet, and an assessment.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define a key message.
- Recognize the components of a key message.
- Make a key message.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 100 minutes.
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead projector
- MS.41.Assess—one per student
- MS.41.AS.A—one per student
- MS.41.TM.A
- MS.41.TM.B
- MS.41.TM.C
- Unit
- Stage Two of Development—WE
- Problem Area
- How Do I Communicate My Thoughts and Ideas to Others.
- Precepts
- A2: Focus on results. A5: Communicate effectively with others.
- Resources
- National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings, 2003.
- Key Terms
- Key message
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K12.12Applying Language Skills — Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes.