High school oral communication creative writing interactive whiteboards

Critical Thinking, Oral Communication, Problem Solving

Working Memory Executive Functioning NO PRINT Speech | Distance Learning

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The Whimsical Word

Memory for Messages is the perfect functional resource to target working memory skills in your middle and high school students. This lesson is designed to be NO PRINT and NO PREP. You can download it today, and use within minutes. *****************************************************************************************************************Each student is presented with a printed message, then asked to determine which words are relevant in that message, to be written down on a "sticky note"

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6th - 9th

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Also included in: Teletherapy Starter Bundle for Middle/High School No Print Digital Speech

Short Stories for Comprehension for Older Students

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Oral Communication, Special Education, Speech Therapy

Comprehension work for upper elementary, middle school, and even high school speech-language students made easy! Target receptive language, expressive language, and reading comprehension using vocabulary meanings in context, iidioms/figures of speech, wh- questions, inferences, and predictions with these original high-interest short stories made for older students. 8 stories allow for multiple practice targets! Each Story Includes:A total of 9 pages!3 containing the story and vocabulary activiti

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4th - 10th

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CCSS:

CCRA.L.3

, CCRA.L.4

, CCRA.L.5

NO PRINT Directing Your Tone of Voice Middle & High School Inferences

Created by

Life Skills, Oral Communication, Speech Therapy

Do you find it difficult to teach tone of voice? Do you find that the instructions your giving sound vague and too abstract? This interactive PDF provides instructions for tone of voice vocabulary including practice tools, video examples, and quantifiable measures for concrete thinkers. Additionally, the social scenes and scenarios take ONE phrase in THREE difference contexts to solidify how tone of voice changes in different contexts.Have middle school and high school students in mixed group

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4th - 12th

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Describing your location - ESL adult and kid conversation lesson

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Oral Communication, Vocabulary

YOU CAN FIND A VIDEO SAMPLE OF THIS LESSON: Click here This presentation contains a 71 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a vocabulary handout and Teacher’s notes.Descriptions of locations are becoming more and more difficult (not only for ESL), because we have learnt to rely completely on a GPS. We can’t read maps anymore and we have a tough time for giving directions to a specific location, if we can’t “share the GPS location on our phone”.In this lesson, I’ve tried to collect

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Grades:

11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Cultural Activities

Also included in: learning to describe - bundle for ESL, EFL, ELL adult conversation

BELL RINGERS FOR ENGLISH | DIGITAL & PRINT DAILY WRITING PROMPTS | DISTANCE

Created by

Hands on Reading

Complete with a printable student workbook, these bell ringers are sure to engage your students in unique quality writing. Give students a lot of variety and practice with the writing process, interdisciplinary writing, and multiple genres by including this resource in your daily practices. This product includes 180 slides and the accompanied workbook for one entire school year of daily writing, but it is versatile enough to work whenever you need in your curriculum. In addition

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Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

7th - 12th

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Handouts, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

CCSS:

W.7.1

, W.7.2

, W.7.3

, W.7.4

, W.7.10

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Conversation Questions & Comments Mega Bundle Boom Cards

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Oral Communication, Special Education, Speech Therapy

This Boom Card deck series works great for speech/language or special education students working on social skills, expressive communication, or carry-over of speech skills by providing sample scenarios in which to practice best conversational responses. Each deck includes 20 cards with situations pertaining to that deck topic in order to help students think about appropriate comments, questions, or answers. Incorrect choices provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or s

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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CCSS:

CCRA.SL.1

, CCRA.SL.6

NO PRINT Mapping Out Language Functional Life Skills BUNDLE

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Life Skills, Oral Communication, Speech Therapy

This is a collection of innovative, interactive PDFs that will allow middle school and high school students to work on life skills while targeting attention, memory, semantic reasoning, executive function, auditory comprehension, and verbal expression on just 5 pages for 5 different cities: Charleston, SC; Big Sky Resort, MA; El Paso, TX; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL. *****Watch this YOUTUBE video to see my 6 tips in action for using Mapping Out Language resources in teletherapy sessions!!**

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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Conversation Questions & Comments: Valentine's Boom Cards

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Oral Communication, Speech Therapy, Valentine's Day

This Boom Card deck is great for social skills and pragmatic language therapy! These Valentine's Day/relationship/friendship communication situations help students think about appropriate conversational responses. Wrong answers provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or social skills groups!To play:Read the communication situation and four possible responses. Determine the "best" response. Variations on play include: Cover responses and have students give their respons

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Grades:

8th - 12th

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CCSS:

CCRA.SL.1

, CCRA.SL.3

, CCRA.SL.6

Also included in: Conversation Questions & Comments: Holiday Bundle Boom

Superstitions - What does science say? ESL adults PPT no-prep lesson

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Halloween, Oral Communication

This presentation contains a 36 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format. *This is the conversation part of the "superstition" lesson. The second part is called: "Superstitions - quiz"I created this lesson for the Halloween period when superstitions are fun to discuss. Superstitions are a great conversation topic because we all seem to have them. Even my most pragmatic students reluctantly admit that they wouldn’t discuss road accident scenarios while driving or book a flight on Friday the

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Grades:

8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Halloween mega bundle - ESL Adult English conversation power-point

NO PRINT Communicating Compound & Complex Sentences BUNDLE Distance Learning

Created by

Grammar, Oral Communication, Speech Therapy

Although I personally recognize the importance of correct grammar and use it to the best of my ability, it is definitely not my favorite thing to work on with students. But, OHHHH, do I have some upper elementary and middle school students that need direct instruction in this area! If you're looking for a structured AND engaging activity for teaching sentence patterns, different types of conjunctions, and uses of conjunctions to formulate compound and complex sentences, this BUNDLE of NO PRINT r

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Grades:

5th - 10th

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Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Study Unit to be used with Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

Created by

Mindy Killgrove

This unit has everything, and I mean everything, you need to successfully teach Whale Talk. I have included a suggested reading calendar, teacher lesson plans, a vocabulary list, exit and entry events, study guides and quizzes for every chapter, in -class activities, an essay prompt, a test (10 multiple choice, 20 matching, 10 true/false, and 2 essays), and a journal entry writing prompt for each chapter. Since this is a zipped file, I have also included the Power Point document (used to creat

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Grades:

9th - 12th

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CCSS:

RL.11-12.1

, RL.11-12.4

, SL.11-12.4

Also included in: Chris Crutcher Bundle (End of Year)

Conversation Questions and Comments On the Job Ed. Boom Cards Distance Learning

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Oral Communication, Special Education, Speech Therapy

This Boom Card deck works great for speech/language or special education students working on transitioning to the work world by targeting communication skills such as they prepare to interview, start a job, hold a job or lose a job. Includes 20 sample questions from the above scenarios and more! It's great for social skills, soft skills, and expressive language therapy! These on-the-job communication situations help students think about appropriate conversational responses in the working world.

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Grades:

8th - 12th

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Life Skills, Oral Communication, Special Education

CCSS:

CCRA.SL.1

, CCRA.SL.6

Also included in: Conversation Questions & Comments Mega Bundle Boom Cards

Social Story - I Shouldn't Always Say What I Am Thinking

Created by

Amanda Ganelli

This is a social story created for the middle or high school level special education class. This story helps students to understand when it is not acceptable to just blurt out what they may be thinking and why. Relevant examples are used as they would be seen in the school day. 10 - 15 minute notebook file and discussion.

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Grades:

3rd - 12th

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Interactive Whiteboard, By TpT Sellers for TpT Sellers

CANADA VS USA - ESL adult and kid debate conversation

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EFL - ESL - ELD, ESL / ELL / EFL, Oral Communication

This presentation contains a 50 slide PowerPoint lesson in an editable PPT format with a work paper and Teacher’s notes that accompany the lesson. This lesson is a wonderful exercise in debating an opinion for ESL students or high school kids.Most ESL students, adults and kids alike, have misconceptions, stereotypes and sometimes just plain wrong opinions about these two great countries.Most of all, in my experience, it’s Canada that gets the short end of the stick. I know the comparison might a

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Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Cultural Activities

350+ WH-Questions with 20 Various Topics for Your Speaking Class - 1st Edition

Created by

Abe's Store

INTRODUCTIONTeaching Speaking requires latest information on what's happening around the world which sometimes teachers do not have time to look for. Through this 20 topics with 350+ WH-Questions that cover various topics like Youtube, Lifestyle, Pets and others, you can prepare another side of class management rather than gathering information only to create your sets of Speaking questions.ABOUT THE MATERIALThe slide aims for the improvement of your students' Speaking and Critical thinking sinc

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English Language Arts, Oral Communication, Other (ELA)

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Excuses - learn how to make them properly! ESL adult & kid conversation

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EFL - ESL - ELD, ESL / ELL / EFL, Oral Communication

This presentation contains a 31 slide, adaptable power point presentation, with a video and a work paperTeacher notes included.This subject is fun because it gives us an opportunity to talk openly and in detail about something we usually don’t freely admit.It’s also a great opportunity to use the (very English) phrase ‘hypothetically speaking…. Which my students adopted immediately and totally abused by the end of the lesson…This lesson includes: - Proverbs - The difference between an excuse an

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Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Cross-culture business Bundle - ESL adult PowerPoint conversation lessons

Thinking on Your Feet Game

Created by

GibbUK

I previously hosted 'Thinking on Your Feet Game' on another site and had over 60000 downloads! This is a very enjoyable talking and listening activity. It's perfect for the last 5 minutes of the day. Pupils get very enthusiastic about this fun-filled thinking game! It runs with a timer and has 220 slides. The aim is to name 5 items in a category within 10 seconds. Press F5 and once you, or the student, reads the category, press the right hand cursor arrow to start the timer. Their time is up wh

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Critical Thinking, Oral Communication, Vocabulary

Grades:

6th - 9th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Emoji – A new language? ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kid conversation

Created by

Critical Thinking, EFL - ESL - ELD, Oral Communication

This is a two-hour ESL adult conversation lesson about emojis, their significance and the way we use them. The first hour includes a discussion about the role of emojis as a language. In the second hour, students reflect on the cultural aspect of Emojis and possible misunderstandings and gaffs they might cause.“Emojis” have gone way beyond a fun illustration for our text messages. Not only are they becoming a language onto themselves, but this is, as far as we know, the first truly global langua

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Grades:

9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Cross-culture business Bundle - ESL adult PowerPoint conversation lessons

Winter Animals Language Boom Cards NO PRINT Speech | Distance Learning

Created by

The Whimsical Word

Looking for an easy way to target multiple language skills this winter season with your middle and high school students?Winter Animals Language Mini-Unit is comprehensive flash card series that is self-checking and easy to use. Three stories, each containing a non-fiction story about a winter animal (the arctic fox, snowshoe hare & caribou reindeer), are presented, along with comprehension questions that target: ***main idea***inferences***vocabulary***prediction***character trait***author'

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English Language Arts, Oral Communication, Speech Therapy

Grades:

7th - 10th

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Flash Cards, Interactive Whiteboard

A Raisin in the Sun Activities Bundle

Created by

Christina Carew

This play, A Raisin in the Sun, is easy to teach because of the relatable themes of struggle: financial, familial, and personal. #TheStruggle Students really get into this unit, and especially love these two activities: -Real World Money Activity with coordinating worksheet guide for students to budget for monthly expenses based on an anticipated career. You may need to alter some figures based on the area you live in, but all numbers were reached by research and my best knowledge. This is a

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Poetry

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

NO PRINT How to Emoji Conversation Skills

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Life Skills, Oral Communication, Speech Therapy

Almost all of my middle school and high school students that have deficits in social communication skills--specifically, facial expressions and emotions--also show deficits in CHATBOX ETIQUETTE in their use of emojis and "on topic" responses. Students who struggle with interpreting feelings of others, also struggle with identifying emotions depicted in emojis. Go figure! Often, the misinterpret the cues given on the emoji faces, leading to 1) misinterpretations of intended messages and 2) "of

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Grades:

6th - 10th

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Warnings 1 – why do we ignore them? – ESL adult and kids conversation

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