Discover the joy of using cue cards

How to make and use note cards for speeches

Many years ago, I was part of a debating team where I quickly learned a mess of indecipherable notes was useless.

When I became a teacher much later, I had to show my students how to make good cue cards for similar reasons. Their scraps of paper filled with the entire text of their speech written in teensy-tiny handwriting were about as much use a chocolate teapot. None. Funny how history repeats!

This page: how to make and use cue cards has the step-by-step guidelines I used for teaching them. It covers:

• the materials required

• the layout and 10 features of a good note or cue card

• how to write up cue cards - the 3-step process to get from a speech outline to cue cards that work the way you need them to  

• how to rehearse with them

• and the difference between cue and flash cards.

I hope it’s useful to you.

Happy teaching, happy speaking,

Susan

PPS. As I said last week, and I’ll say next, if you have ideas for topics you’d like to see covered in this newsletter, or if you’d like to share an article on some aspect of public speaking, or a speech of your own, please get in touch. Either reply to this email or contact me through the form on my about me page on my website. I’d love to hear from you!