Conversation Skills Role-Playing Scenarios for Middle & High School Students

Do your students struggle with understanding the nuances and unspoken rules of conversations? Do they unintentionally create barriers when interacting with peers and adults? This bundle of role-playing scenarios will help your students see conversations and social situations through different perspectives and better understand the key elements of successful conversations.

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Perfect For…

• Middle and high school students with pragmatic language goals
• Role-playing successful and unsuccessful interactions
• Exploring the elements and unspoken rules of conversations
• Identifying the causes of communication breakdowns
• Perspective-taking

What’s Included in the Bundle

3 Conversation Mini-Script Resources

• Using Background Information to Repair Conversations
• How Your Social Filter Affects Conversations
• Sharing and Participating in Conversations

And…

• Conversation Navigation-Thinking About and Mapping Out Conversations

Each Mini-Script Resource Includes…

Introduction and Practice Page

• Brief description of the featured element and the role it plays in conversations.
• Practice activity-Determine responses that demonstrate the featured element in a conversational exchange and those that do not.
• A ‘warm-up’ rehearsal scene

10 Role-Playing Conversation Mini-Scripts

• 5 Short scenes split into 2 ‘Takes’ (15 scenes & 30 total scripts in the bundle)
• ‘Take One’ depicts a character struggling with a conversational component and nuance, resulting in an awkward interaction.
• ‘Take Two’- The character contributes to the conversation in a manner that successfully moves it forward, resulting in a positive interaction.
• 5 discussion questions at the end of each ‘take’ of a scene
• 2 characters and a narrator in each scene.
• Scenes feature familiar school-based situations and settings for older students!

Visual Support Page

• Use as a companion and support for the scripts!
• Graphic representation of the featured conversational elements to help students better grasp the concepts.

Conversation Navigation-Planning and Mapping Out Conversations

• The conversation map guides students through 4 steps to plan and initiate a conversation.
• Where? Who’s there? What do you know about them? and What could you talk to them about?

3 Ways to Use!

• Plan and map out a conversation with 12 fictional characters using the conversation partner cards.
• Plan a conversation for a real-life partner and situation.
• Plan a conversation for a partner you created by using the editable conversation partner card template.