Conversation Skills Activities Lesson Social Communication Speech Therapy

Are you looking for elementary social language materials that focus on conversation reciprocity skills AND also contain a social story, activities, rubric and editable components? Do you have students that monopolize conversations by always talking about their own interests and never giving their peers a chance to talk? Are their conversations one-sided and more like monologues than dialogues? Then, try this packet of activities designed to help clients or students improve their self-awareness of their own conversational skills, build their conversational skills for low and high-interest topics, improve conversational reciprocity, ask questions and make comments to maintain a conversation and learn to maintain more of a '50/50' style of conversation. The teaching story can be read to your non-readers but the majority of the packet is for readers. You can display the teaching story on your smart board, laptop or I pad too!

Here's what is included:

• 9 pages,Teaching Story: Conversations, a two-way street: color
• 9 pages, Teaching Story: Conversations: a two-way street, b&w
• 2 pages, Conversation Chaos script (for readers!),
• 2 pages. Conversation Chaos student worksheet and corresponding answer key, black and white,
• 1 page, Tally sheet for counting conversational turns, minimal color
• 1 page, Tokens for counting words or sentences in a conversation, B&W,
• 1 page, Topic sorter sheet to sort high-interest and low-interest conversational topics, color, white background,
• 11 pages of conversational topic cards, (44 cards),
• 1 page of blank topic cards to individualize,
• 1 page, Tips, visuals to help students maintain a conversation,
• 3 pages: perspective-taking on those who monopolize conversations,
• 4 pages Instructions sheets for all 3 activities,
• 2 pages, Rubric for measuring conversational reciprocity and sample IEP or therapy goals, black and white, AND
  Two pages of EDITABLE cards (edit in Powerpoint).

You will need a zip extractor to open the product. You will receive a pdf of the product and an editable card template in PowerPoint. (If you want to edit the cards, you will need powerpoint).

I have used this activity with elementary school children with Aspergers and ADHD. They find it easier to improve their own conversational skills by analyzing a social script of a conversation where someone interrupts and does not involve the other person in the conversation. The activities help students improve their own self-awareness and self-monitoring skills, which are integral in making improvements in their conversational skills. The activities give them practice and improve reciprocity during low interest and high-interest conversations. Thanks for checking these activities out.

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