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Conversational
Skills
Educational
Objective: The student will engage with another student in a give
and take
conversation.
Language Arts Standard: Listening & Speaking
Materials
Needed:
The Prop Box with costumes
Brainstorm Form
Appropriate Rubric: One for each student to complete during
each role play 
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The Lesson:
• Identify Need
• Introductory Activity
• Define Steps and Sequences of Skill
To
Start:
1.
Look at the person or persons that you want to talk with.
2. Address the people by their name.
3. Stand about an arm's length away from everyone.
4 .Wait until there is a pause in the conversation for you to
start talking.
5 .Try to add information to the conversation.
During
the conversation:
1. Always look at the people. Check out their body language and
facial expressions.
2. You may change topics only when people are finished speaking
on that subject.
3. When you change a topic it should usually be related to what
you were speaking about earlier.
4. Ask questions about the topic.
5. Add information about the topic that you know.
6. Some people use touch to compliment their words, such as a
pat on the back.
7. Be animated by using lots of gestures.
Ending the conversation
1.
Make sure everyone has had a chance to talk.
2. Use closing expressions, like "i see that class is starting."
Complement the other person. "You had really good ideas.
It was good talking with you."
4. Thank the other person, "thanks for sharing with me."
5. Use a final closing statement like, "O. K., see you later."
6. Many people close their conversations with a handshake.
• Model the Skill
• Role Plays/Classroom Discussion - Completion of Rubric
during Role Plays
• Applications
• Independent Uses
Rubric
For Role Play
Student
(Speaker)________________________ Student (Subject)____________________________
Date: ___________________Observer's Name:___________________________________________
| Behaviors: |
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| Did the speaker maintain an arm's length of distance between
himself and subject? |
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| Did he maintain eye contact? |
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| Did he wait before joining the conversation? |
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| Did start his speaking on the same subject as the others? |
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| Did he add information? |
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| Did he take turns...even by just adding a nod or "uh
huh"? |
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| Did he ask questions of the others? |
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| Did he use gestures? |
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| Did the speaker use a signal to start the end of the conversation? |
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| Did the speaker make a closing statement, like "see
you later"? |
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Score |
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Additional Comments or Observations: _________________________________________
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Other Standards
Address in Lesson:
6th
Grade.
Speaking Applications:
2.4 Offer a logical sequence of information and engage the listener,
foster an acceptance of an idea.
7th
Grade
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Determine a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
1.6 Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation , inflection,
tempo, enunciation and eye contact for effective communication.
8th
Grade
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Paraphrase a speaker’s purpose and point of view and ask relevant
questions concerning the speaker’s content, delivery and purpose.
1.3 Organize information to achieve particular purposes by matching
the message, vocabulary, voice modulation, expression and tone
to the audience and purpose.
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