Get To Know You Activity Ice Breaker Speech Therapy Connect with Others Original

Out with traditional ice breakers, and in with a NEW activity to get to know and BUILD RAPPORT with your students... while targeting speech therapy GOALS at the same time! This simple and versatile game for OLDER students comes with 2 VERSIONS– print and digital.

The game allows you to target tons of LANGUAGE & PRAGMATIC goals within a FUNCTIONAL activity, including:

✅ Asking and answering QUESTIONS using appropriate syntax

✅ Engaging in back-and-forth CONVERSATION

✅ Asking FOLLOW-UP questions

✅ Maintaining TOPIC of conversation

✅ Providing sufficient DETAILS

✅ Organizing and telling NARRATIVES

✅ Making INFERENCES

This activity incorporates several strategies that are perfect for OLDER STUDENTS, including giving choices, personalizing the activity, and the use of game elements.

Use this one game ACROSS YOUR CASELOAD. It's structured to keep students on task, while still encouraging and guiding them to converse with one another.

This game is EASY TO LEARN. Players take turns asking each other questions (or telling something) about the topics within the circles. The goal is to make a "path" across the page/slide by starting on a circle at one end, and marking circles all the way to the opposite end of the game board.

This game is great to play...

• with pairs of students and small groups
• with an SLP/teacher and an individual student
• on the first day of school or speech therapy
• as an ice breaker when a new student joins a group
• as homework for carryover practice

This resource includes 2 FORMATS/VERSIONS (downloaded as a zipped file):

• A PRINTABLE PDF that can be used with markers, crayons, colored pencils, bingo daubers, or tokens to mark spaces.
• A DIGITAL VERSION FOR GOOGLE SLIDES™ that includes movable "chips" and is perfect for teletherapy or a smart board.

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This activity will soon become your favorite ice breaker! Conversation will flow as your students discuss relevant and interesting topics with each other. Use it over and over again, since no two games are the same.

Other SLPs and teachers are saying...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Meghan C. says, "Love this simple resource. I brought it up on the screen during a social group and they went back and forth asking questions and we used the online marker to color them."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heather F. says, "This is a great beginning of school year resource, and really keeps kids engaged and talking, and I love learning these things about my students too! It opens the door to conversations which several of my students need to work on!"