Looking for a free high school conversation skills material? Once again, Everyday Speech has your back! This article will share some tips and tricks to plan a fun and engaging lesson. Make sure you download with the free conversation skills material for you to use with your high school students!
How to Teach Conversation Skills to High School Students
If your high school students are working on their conversation skills, we suggest using the Everyday Speech concept of Conversation Drivers & Stoppers. Conversation Drivers are behaviors that will move a conversation forward, such as asking questions or staying on topic. Conversation Stoppers are actions that stop a conversation, including not looking interested or talking over someone.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free High School Conversation Skills Material
1. Brainstorm a list of behaviors to classify as either a Conversation Driver or Stopper
Ask your students to make a list of all of the Conversation Drivers and Stoppers behaviors they can think of. Our Social Communication Curriculum comes complete with these printable goal posters to help you introduce new skills to students and review the Conversation Drivers & Stoppers concept.
2. Cut up the cards in the free download below
Talk through the 30+ prompts in the free high school conversation skills material below with your learners! With so many question prompts, this could be an entire lesson or broken up and used as a short game over multiples ones.
3. Print out our Conversation Drivers & Stopper visual icon to hang in your class
We provide these visual tools as a fun reminder for students to remember all of the useful conversation skills you’ve worked on with them! Print out and keep hung in your office or even on a student’s desk if they would like and could benefit from the reminder!
Sample High School Conversation Skills Video:
Looking to get the most out of your free Conversation Skills material? Check out our no-prep sample video lesson!
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