You have written your speech. Now you need to plan your visual aid. Remember to evaluate your product!

1. Big 6:
Steps 5 and 6:
Synthesis and Evaluation
Project Achievement
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2. Your Visual Aid
Big 6: Step 5-Synthesis

3. Visual Aid Advice
Use a large font for your title
Include keywords and bulleted points
Don’t include too much on one poster
Stick to only a few colors
You might use a map, chart, diagram, or graph
You will have more than one poster

4. Visual Aid Advice
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Your visual aid should follow the order of our speech
Cut out letters or use stencils
Reinforce your poster board
Include a border
Use the title poster also for your conclusion
Practice your speech with your posters

5. 1. Review your speech
2. Select the information
3. Create headings
4. Select keywords or facts
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Visual Aid Planning

6. 5. Select your images
6. Sketch a draft
7. Which colors are best?
Visual Aid Planning

7. Your Visual Aid
Big 6: Step 6- Evaluation
Source: http://georgia4h.org/public/coreprograms/projectachievement/ResourcesforAGents/default.htm

8. Evaluate your Visual Aid
Did you use a large font for your headings?
Did you include keywords or bulleted points?
Is it easy to read from a distance?
Did you keep it simple?
Does the visual support your information?
Is it neat?

9. Your Speech
Step 6: Evaluation
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10. Introduction Checklist
Did your introduction start out with a
catchy phrase or story? Did you hook your
audience?
Did you introduce yourself?
Did you tell us why you picked this topic?
Did you explain what you are going to talk
about?

11. Body Paragraph
Checklist
Do you have a clear topic sentence?
Do you provide three to four sentences that
explain your topic? (Definitions, examples,
facts)
Do you share your information source?
Does your final sentence help to restate you
topic sentence?

12. Conclusion Checklist
Did you review the main points of your
topic?
Did you leave your audience with something
interesting to remember about your topic?
Is your conclusion interesting?
Did you thank your audience?

13. Peer-editing
Read your partner’s
speech
Use the Editing Checklist
Use the Project
Achievement Rubric