Support student success with a debate speech template that guides them through writing and delivering persuasive speeches in every debate role.
A Role-Specific Debate Speech Template for Students
Class debates are a fabulous way of fostering students’ thinking, writing and speaking skills. Like any other team activity, each member of a debating team plays an important role in contributing to the group’s success. This can be overwhelming for our students at first, but with the right support, it doesn’t have to be!
This debate speech template pack has been designed by our teacher team to help your students be successful debaters, no matter what the topic! The pack features a structured template for each role in a standard debate: the 1st, 2nd and 3rd speakers of the affirmative team, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd speakers of the negative team. Each template walks students through what to include in their speech, how to structure their arguments, and how to respond to the other team.
Whether your students are new to debating or looking to refine their skills, these templates make it easy to understand each speaker’s responsibilities and build a well-organized, persuasive case.
This debate speech template pack downloads as an easy-print PDF or an editable Google Slides file. The Google Slides file is perfect should you wish to make any alterations to the prompts found within the templates.
Classroom Debating Made Easy with Debate Speech Outline Templates
This resource has many benefits to assist your students in achieving success with their debating speeches. These include:
- Six role-specific templates covering all standard debate roles
- Clear prompts tailored to each speaker’s responsibilities
- Reduces overwhelm by breaking the speech-writing process into manageable steps
- Sentence starters to support structured and persuasive writing
- Dedicated space for students to draft and revise their speeches
- Helps students understand the structure and flow of formal debates
- Age-appropriate language suitable for elementary school learners
- Printable, ready-to-use PDF format
- Editable Google Slides format
Whether they’re delivering the opening remarks or finishing strong as the third speaker, these debating speech templates will teach your students exactly what to say and how to say it!
Download This Debate Speech Template Pack
This debate speech template pack can be downloaded as either a black-and-white PDF or an editable Google Slides file. Simply download the PDF, print the templates and hand them out to students preparing for their debate roles. If you download the Google file, please note that you will be asked to make a copy to your personal drive.
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