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Standard C.LCS.4

C.LCS.4 Critique how a speaker addresses content and uses stylistic and structural craft techniques to inform, engage, and impact audiences.

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Betsy Byars | Conversations with SC Writers

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Betsy Byars started her career writing for magazines. Later, she turned her attention to writing children's books. In 1971, she won a Newbery Medal for Summer of the Swans. Ms. Byars enjoys writing...
Dori Sanders | Conversations with SC Writers

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S.C. author Dori Sanders reads from her bestseller, Clover , and describes the characters in the novel. She talks about characters being based loosely on real-life but the stories being fictionalized...
Matt Christopher | Converations with SC Writers

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Matt Christopher opens by reading from The Kid Who Only Hits Homers. He states that all of his books are written to entertain the readers. He expresses the importance of writing with emotion. He...
Eleanora Tate | Conversations with SC Writers

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Eleanora Tate is an award-winning author of children's books. She discusses writing The Secret of Gumbo Grill. Her idea for the book came from the fact that there were few books dealing with modern...
Tom Feelings | Conversations with SC Writers

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Tom Feelings was both a writer and an illustrator. He taught illustrating at the University of South Carolina. Usually, the process is that a manuscript is submitted to a publisher, and the publisher...
Tommy Scott Young | Conversations with SC Writers

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Students speak with poet, storyteller and writer Tommy Scott Young. Mr. Young starts with The Gingerbread Man. One of his secrets is to read outloud. The characters do not come fully alive without...
John Troy McQueen | Conversations with SC Writers

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South Carolina author of children's books, John Troy McQueen, begins with a reading from A World Full of Monsters. Mr. McQueen says that he sometimes writes story ideas down, but sometimes he allows...
Chetter Galloway | Inside Storytelling

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Storyteller Chetter Galloway, of Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in African and African American stories. His renditions are energetic and animated. He blends his stories with music, drumming, sound...
Jackson Gillman | Inside Storytelling

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Jackson Gillman is known as the "Stand-Up Chameleon." He incorporates song, dance, mime, and sign language into his storytelling. What distinguishes him from other storytellers is his use of movement...