Social Skills for Middle and High School - Conversation Scripts

This activity will give your middle and high school students plenty of conversation skills practice! This activity will help your older students practice conversation skills in a safe environment. Each script begins with heavy scaffolding, reducing as the conversation moves forward, to encourage increasing independence and unstructured responses.

WHAT DO I GET?

37 scripts to use with your student! Scripts are based at school (e.g. conversations with teachers, school staff) and with friends. If you would like scripts with a focus on the workplace and community (e.g. cafes, the dentist), click here!

WHAT DO THE CONVERSATION SCRIPTS INVOLVE?

Each conversation script has the following levels:

Level 1:

- A pre-written script between your student and another person in a specific situation. They can simply read this aloud to practice the conversation. This teaches your student that usually, these conversations will be quite basic and straight forward.

Level 2:

- Unexpected or unusual questions or responses from the character without a scripted response. Your student must respond independently without a script in place to "unexpected" turns in conversations.

Level 3:

- Related therapy questions to prompt further discussions about the situation (targeting skills including problem solving, reflecting, perspective taking, predicting and decision making)

WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THE CONVERSATIONS?

- Telling a teacher you didn't finish your assignment in time

- Asking a friend to hang out at lunch

- Telling a friend you cannot afford to do an activity

- Confronting a friend when they have hurt your feelings

+ MANY more!

SAVE TIME SESSION PLANNING!

These scripts will help to take therapy session planning and brainstorming OUT of your very busy hands and should last you many therapy sessions. When mixed with other task card decks or therapy activities, this deck alone should last many months for a weekly student!!

A QUICK AND EASY "GO TO" FOR YOUR TOOL BAG!

Very low prep (just print and go, or even quicker - just read from your laptop/tablet!).

WHO CAN USE THEM?

Regular education teachers, special education teachers, SLPs, OTs and other support professionals could all benefit from using these task cards with their students. These cards are specifically designed for middle and high school aged students.

Individual ideas:

o Side activity during a board game or other therapy activity!

o A “break” between therapy activities if the other activities are worksheet-heavy or targeting another skill!

o Use these scripts as a therapy activity itself.

o “Warm up practice” for the start of each session.

o Quick assessment of skills.

o Homework - practice with a parent or write down their answers.

You can even use them to simultaneously target additional skills like expressive language, speech, reading comprehension/decoding.

Small group and/or classroom ideas:

o Put the scripts up in different parts of the room (or outside!) and have students walk around with the room and practice with a partner.

o Have students get into pairs and talk about their answers and thoughts together.

o Use a script or two each morning as part of a guided class discussion with a volunteer student practicing in front of the class. Use this as an opportunity to discuss conversation skills, empathy, perspective taking etc.

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