Conversational Skills: Responding to Others, Grades 1-5

Responding To Others, Conversational Skills For 1st-5th Grade is a valuable teaching resource. It enhances students' conversation skills of expressing interest in others through questions, comments and connections. It is also packed with activities to engage learners.

This teaching resource includes:

• Three distinct activities presented across multiple levels for customised learning.
• A total of 72 pages full of content including instructions and discussion sheets.
• Cards presenting various conversational scenarios for practicing learned skills.

Activity one - Quickie Comments:

With this activity, students explore positive and negative responses using prepared comments. They engage with story cards that they can read individually or in groups.

• Includes: 27 positive response options + 18 negative response comments
• Editability: Sections for customised content as per classroom needs

Activity two - Curious Questions:

This activity encourages learners to practice forming questions using a supplied question starters poster. An interesting comparison challenge between 'Curious' & 'Questionable' questions enhances critical thinking while reinforcing questioning techniques. It comes along with an editable section for tailored requirement fitting. There are ten question prompt cards included as well.

Activity three - Considerate Connections:

In this module, students are guided on how to make considerate connections within conversations. They get an opportunity to identify if given statements are considerate or careless ones enhancing comprehension check-ins such that:

• The scenario sessions come pre-made along with editable sections providing flexibility in planning lessons . Students can exercise their newly learned skill This resource caters to the learning needs of students in grades one to five and can be deployed in small group learning sessions or classroom exercises. The product file format is a PDF which makes it easy-to-use as a digital teaching resource. It has been designed keeping remote teaching and homeschooling applications in mind while aiming to develop effective communication practices among young learners. Making conversation education enjoyable for students during these formative years, this blends learning with fun.

Included Please Find: 72 Pages

Discussion Page

Directions Page

Topic Cards

18 Topic Cards

1 EDITABLE Topic Cards

Activity 1: Quickie Comments

Quickie Comments poster(Responding To Positive)

27 Quickie Comments(Responding To Positive)

EDITABLE Quickie Comments

Quickie Comments poster(Responding To Negative)

18 Quickie Comments(Responding To Negative)

EDITABLE Quickie Comments

8 Quickie Comment Story Cards For Teachers To Read To Students

8 Quickie Comment Story Cards For Students To Read To Each Other

Activity 2: Curious Questions

Question Starters Poster

9 Question Starters

EDITABLE Question Starters

10 Question Prompt Cards

EDITABLE Question Prompt Cards

20 Curious Question vs. Questionable Question Cards

8 Curious Question vs. Questionable Question Prompt Cards

EDITABLE Cards

Curious Question vs. Questionable Question Activity Chart

Activity 3: Considerate Connections

Considerate Connections Poster

12 Considerate Connections Cards

EDITABLE Considerate Connections Cards

18 Considerate Connection or Careless Connection Cards

EDITABLE Considerate Connection or Careless Connection Cards

Considerate Connection or Careless Connection Chart