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Green Zone Common Ground Conversation Starter Worksheets HandoutGreen Zone Common Ground Conversation Starter Worksheets Handout
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2nd - 6th
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English Language Arts
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2010
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Green Zone Common Ground Conversation Starter Worksheets

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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 learners learn to start and develop conversations.

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Concepts

conversation skills, social skills, autism, discussion skills

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Instructional Ideas

  • If you have overhead sheets at your disposal, consider having learners use these to start their writing on different ends of a table, rather than having them try to not look at their partner's paper 

Classroom Considerations

  • Resource was originally designed to support learners with Asperger syndrome or elsewhere on the autism spectrum

Pros

  • Includes variety of ideas for conversation starters
  • Color reference is useful for more visual learners

Cons

  • None

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