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Appropriate Topics of Conversation

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Conversation skills are key for having good social skills, but it can be tough for some especially those with autism. Use an activity that walks ASD pupils through topics that are and aren't appropriate for various audiences as they fill...
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Handout
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Green Zone Common Ground Conversation Starter Worksheets

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Finding common ground and building conversation can often prove a difficult task for many. Help learners build this important social skill using this resource, which includes a Venn diagram worksheet and sentence prompts to help students...
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Ending A Conversation

For Teachers K - 12th
Sometimes beginning a conversation isn't the hard part—it's ending the conversation that can be challenging. Autistic and mainstream learners alike can benefit from a resource that provides a reference handout with ways to end a...
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Starting a Conversation

For Teachers K - 12th
What words are appropriate to begin a conversation with another person? Use an activity that helps class members decide appropriate ways to approach individuals with conversation.
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Reciprocal Conversation

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Keep the conversation going with a social skills activity. Designed for learners with autism, the lesson guides peers through the back-and-forth of a conversation, encouraging them to wait their turn before responding.
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Staying on Topic

For Teachers K - 12th
Get from the beginning of a conversation to a successful end with a communication activity. Learners practice staying on topic with a worksheet that prompts them to ask questions and make comments related to the subject of the conversation.
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PPT
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Learning About Conversation

For Teachers K - 2nd
This communications PowerPoint informs students of proper conversation rules. In this PowerPoint, students read the rules for conducting a conversation. There are illustrations to go along with each rule.
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App
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ConversationBuilder

For Students 1st - 8th
Some students struggle in social situations or when it comes to conversing with peers. Conversation is key in developing relationships and in building strong social skills. This app can be used to help children with social anxiety, ASD,...
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Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Conversation Skills

For Teachers 1st - 12th
It is so important for learners with multiple disabilities to learn how to communicate for both social and functional reasons. Each child will choose a topic from the list and generate five questions related to that topic. They'll split...
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Printables
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Chain Connection and Un-Connection Activity

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Learners practice remaining on topic during a conversation using printouts of chains as visual models for their work. Chains are placed in sequence while students stay on a shared topic of conversation, and a broken chain is used as a...
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Worksheet
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Past Tense Conversation

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this finishing a conversation worksheet, students use past tense verbs to fill in the blanks of a conversation with a partner. Students write 7 answers.
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Girders and Wrecking Ball Activity

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
As learners build the "girders" of conversation by staying consistent on a particular topic, they avoid the "wrecking ball" of an off-topic comment. To help students develop this important conversation skill, this resource provides them...
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Respecting the Ideas of Others

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Communicating clearly is one part of a successful conversation, but listening to others is just as important. Individuals with special needs plan calm responses and reactions to differing opinions with a collaborative activity.
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Worksheet
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Speaking Practice

For Students K - Higher Ed
Conversational language is something that both young learners and adults learning English need to practice. This short activity, with 13 prompts, can help learners develop this skill. The sentence frames included on this learning...
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Lesson Plan
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A Guide to Getting Along: Listening

For Teachers K - 3rd
Here is an effective way to have your charges practice and model important listening skills. After a short review of effective active listening concepts, such as using body language, summarizing what the other person said, and asking...
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Worksheet
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Conversation With a Leprechaun Story Starter

For Students 1st - 2nd
Here's a worksheet for St. Patrick's Day! Learners read a story starter about a conversation with a leprechaun they meet on a path, and generate the ending of the story and illustrate their work.
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Waiting Your Turn to Speak

For Teachers K - 12th
Have you ever been so excited to talk that you interrupted another person? Help young conversationalists wait their turn to speak with a social skills activity. 
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Lesson Plan
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Mr. Gallon

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate measurement conversions using a visual demonstration.  In this mathematics conversions lesson, students create an image of a plastic gallon jug using a paint software program.  Students utilize the jug image as a...
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Lesson Plan
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Making Plans: A Line-up Role-play

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils engage in a role-playing activity that focuses on conversation skills when using the telephone. They practice being one of two groups, callers and receivers, for the purpose of making plans with each other. There is a dialog page...
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How Interesting Is It?

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Discussing topics that other people are interested in is a key social skill that can often be overlooked. Here is a resource that supports learners in developing this life skill by first prompting them to consider a wide range of...
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Worksheet
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ESL Conversational Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these English Language conversation and grammar worksheets, students complete the activities on the worksheets to help them learn to write with adjectives and read adjectives.
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Grammar Games and Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises. 
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Worksheet
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Interview

For Students 2nd - 4th
English learners practice basic conversation skills with a learning exercise that exercises progressive/continuous verb forms. They conjugate given words to form correct sentences. Their partner does the same. They ask each other the...
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Think-Pair-Share

For Students 2nd - 12th Standards
Ever ask students to share their thoughts with a partner, but then hear them only talking about their weekend plans? Nip that common classroom practice in the bud with this worksheet, in which class members log the content of their...

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