Less than $5 12th Grade Oral Communication Activities (by date, latest first)

This resource should be used with Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart. With this activity, students will read the M'Naghten rule of 1843 and decide whether or not they believe the main character of The Tell-Tale Heart would be found legally sane or insane. This resource includes space for students to collect textual evidence to support their answer, space for students to write other open-ended questions for discussion, and a discussion grading rubric.

I used this activity with my 8th grade students, and they absolutely loved it. They found great evidence to back up their explanations, and gained a deeper understanding of the short story and the M'Naghten rule. We used this resource in a socratic seminar formatted discussion, and they had enough to say about the main character and the M'Naghten rule that the majority of our 55 minute class period was covered.

This resource should accompany The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Upper elementary, middle school, and high school students need reading fluency practice too, but we don't always think about it at these stages. This editable resource asks students to practice a passage directly from The Diary of Anne Frank and focus on accuracy, pace, expression, and punctuation. Students are asked to practice reading the passage to an adult. I have always had my students record themselves reading the passage at the end of a week, and I grade them using the same rubric that is on this assignment.

22 story maps for illustrating storytelling to writing activities. These hobby and life maps are excellent as first week icebreakers, using oral narratives to start the writing process, and learning more about students. Use as individual/small/whole group activities. Meets CCSS. Includes: Directions Example 2 Teacher Maps Singer Traveler (Local, State, US, World) Artist Baseball Softball Basketball Soccer Football Reader Writer Technology Music Dancers (Male & Female) Science My Life Story 3 Blank Story Map Templates Students will have fun while being engaged as they learn about their classmates, draw symbols for life events, write captions, and use storytelling as part of their writing process.

Looking for a GAME that will make SPEAKING FUN in Spanish class?  This winter-themed snowball speaking activity will get students using their Spanish creatively!  This low-prep game, called Snowball Fight, will have students competing to tell stories about a winter day! Easy to differentiate and scaffold with the included teacher instructions and vocab list!

How to play:

-Students choose snowballs (each snowball has a winter-related word)

-Students must create a story with the words on the snowballs, forcing them to think on their feet and create a logical story with random words!

The variations of this game are endless and you can play it all winter long! 

❄have students choose their own snowballs or

❅have their opponent pick for them!

❆give students as much time as they need to tell their story or

❄set a time limit.  Whoever used more snowballs wins!

❅have students pick snowballs one at a time instead of all at once

❆change the verb tense

❄change their opponents

❅Try 2 v 2!

*❅❅*You can even use this as a writing practice instead of speaking!  

❄Increase your students’ ability to  produce creative Spanish!

Teacher Prep:

-Print the snowballs

-Photocopy enough snowballs sets for HALF of your class

-cut the snowballs (6 per page)  *Perfect task for a student helper!

Who can use this product?

• Students in Spanish 2 and up

How can I use this product?

• Set students up in pairs (a group of 3 could work too!)
• Students will choose snowballs.  Each snowball has a winter-related word
• Set parameters (like listed above) to create the rules of the game
• Students use the words on their snowballs to create winter day stories!

What’s included in this product?

• 36 snowballs, each with a winter-related word printed on it
• Teacher instructions
• Printable student instructions
• Scorecard
• Vocab list 
• Self-Assessment rubric
• Peer Feedback rubric
• Color version
• Black and white version

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Spanish Winter-Themed Activities Bundle for Invierno

Spanish Simulated Conversations

Christmas in Spain Digital Escape Room!

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Do your Spanish students need some help with interpersonal speaking?  Are they struggling to have conversations in Spanish?  Let’s give them some guided support with these partner conversations about accidents and injuries!  Both students will have the opportunity to ask and answer questions as part of a conversation, but with a lot of scaffolding to build confidence.

There are 4 guided conversations, so both students will have a chance to ask and answer questions in a conversational way.  

These conversations focus on accidents and injuries in the past time frame (preterite and imperfect). 

Who can use this product?

• Spanish students in year 2 and up

How can I use this product?

• Students will work in partners to participate in a guided conversation
• Students will trade roles so both can practice asking questions and answering questions
• Teachers can assign these conversations as practice or as an assessment
• Students can practice the same conversations with multiple partners to increase comfort and proficiency!

What’s included in this product?

• 4 different scenarios about accidents and injuries
• The conversations provide a scenario/topic of conversation
• The conversations provide general ideas about what to ask and answer to make it easier for students to keep their conversation going.

Other resources you may like:

Spanish Situation Task Cards for Accidents and Injuries: Digital and Printable!

Spanish Seal of Biliteracy Listening and Speaking Accidents and Injuries

Spanish Guided Conversations Bundle for Interpersonal Speaking

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Enhance your French language teaching with this comprehensive collection of 100 conversation starters! Perfect for beginners and intermediate learners, these prompts will help spark engaging discussions, improve speaking skills, and boost confidence in conversational French.

What's Included:

• 100 Conversation Starters: A mix of beginner to intermediate prompts, covering various topics such as hobbies, food, travel, and personal experiences.

This no-prep Weekend Chat Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect icebreaker activity the morning students return from the weekend. Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over the weekend. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who played video games."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one title in Spanish and one title in English)
• Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

Some examples included:

• Find someone who did some exercise.
• Find someone who stayed at home all weekend.
• Find someone who stayed up all night.

More Find Someone Who Resources:

Back to School

After Winter Break

After Spring Break

End of the Year

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Welcome students back from the weekend with this find someone who printable game! This icebreaker is perfect for any weekend or for any longer weekends like Labor day, Memorial Day, MLK day, good Friday, and more! This activity is made for students in 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, and high school. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various weekend activity-themed categories, such as "find someone who stayed up all night."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in

Some examples included:

• Find someone who ordered pizza
• Find someone who played video games
• Find someone who went to a different city

More Find Someone Who Resources:

Back to School

After Thanksgiving Break

After Winter Break

After Spring Break

End of Year

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Use this free no-prep After Spring Break Stand Up Spanish Activity to welcome your students after spring break or Easter break. Use this digital resource as an icebreaker the morning students return from spring break, community building activity or brain break! Students will love standing up or sitting down depending on their answer to the themed slides, such as "stand up if you played a sport."

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What's Included:

• 3 stand up game slides
• Directions slide

Sample Slides:

• Stand up if you made some money.
• Stand up if you played a sport.
• Stand up if spring is your favorite season.

Need more Spanish resources? Click the links below:

Spanish After Spring Break Stand Up Sit Down Game

Spanish After Spring Break Find Someone Who

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Four Corners Game Signs - For Icebreakers and Brain Breaks: These printable Four Corners Game Signs are perfect for interactive icebreakers and brain breaks. They also work for any content or grade level! Simply pose a question and have your students choose a corner for debate or open dialogue. OR use one of our four corner games to increase engagement!

⭐Seasonal & Holiday Games for Secondary⭐

⭐Seasonal & Holiday Games for Primary⭐

What's Included:

• 4 four corner signs: strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree
• A, B, C, D
• 2 Color Options
• Black and White

Four Corner Games...

Back to School

Career Clusters

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This no-prep End of the Year Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect activity for the last day of school! Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over the school year and future summer plans. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who was never absent this year."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one with the title in Spanish and one with the title in English)
• Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

Directions:

• Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after spring break themed categories, such as "find someone who is going to a theme park this summer."
• The first person who fills in all 16 boxes first wins!

Some examples included:

• Find someone who has a sibling in this school.
• Find someone who has inspired you this year.
• Find someone who likes the same subject as you.

More End of the Year Resources:

Stand Up Sit Down

More Spanish Resources:

Stand Up Game Growing Bundle

Back to School Bundle

After Winter Break Bundle

After Spring Break Bundle

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Get students talking and connecting with this Find Someone Who After Thanksgiving Break activity! Perfect for icebreakers, brain breaks, or team building in your middle school and high school classes. This activity will build classroom community while reinforcing speaking and listening skills.

Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various fall break themed categories, such as "find someone who stayed up past midnight."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
• Editable Google Slides version with and without clipart

How to use:

• Students will walk around the room and find different classmates who fits the description in each box.
• Once they find a classmate who fits the description they will have them write their name in the box.
• Students will keep finding classmates until all 16 boxes are full.

Some examples included:

Find someone who did not eat turkey.

Find someone who stayed up past midnight.

Find someone who ate leftovers.

More After Fall Break Resources:

Stand Up Sit Down

More Fall Resources:

Would You Rather

Stand Up Sit Down

Finish the Story

Thanksgiving Would You Rather

More Find Someone Who Resources:

Year Long Bundle

After Winter Break

After Spring Break

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This no-prep After Spring Break Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect icebreaker game to welcome your students after spring break or Easter break! Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over break with their classmates. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who spent time with their friends."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one with the title in Spanish and one with the title in English)
• Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

How to use:

• Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after spring break themed categories, such as "find someone who went on a vacation."
• The first person who fills in all 16 boxes first wins!

Some examples included:

• Find someone who finished reading a book.
• Find Someone who spent time with their friends.
• Find someone who slept in past noon.

Need more Spanish resources? Click the links below:

Spanish After Spring Break Stand Up Sit Down Game

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Use this Halloween activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content during the fall season! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

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What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 Halloween-themed drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

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AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

This exciting back to school-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or can be used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it during the first week of school to gauge your student's public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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✨Public Speaking Bundle✨

✨AVID Bundle✨

✨AVID Team Building Bundle✨

What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 15 back to school topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
• 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: why schools should have a designated nap time)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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More AVID back to school resources...

Drawing Challenge

More 30-Second Speeches...

General Version with 25 Topics

Summer 30 Second Speeches

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Use this end of the year, summer-themed activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

Get the AVID End-of-Year Bundle HERE!

Get the Drawing Challenge Bundle HERE!

⭐Drawing Challenge Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Team Building Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Growing Bundle⭐

What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of the image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

More Drawing Challenges...

Year Round General Version

Halloween

More End of Year Resources...

Summer Games & Activities Bundle

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AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

This find someone who back to school activity makes a great icebreaker the first day of school or first week of school, get to know you activity or brain break. Find someone who will help build classroom community while students practice speaking and listening skills. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after summer break and back to school themed categories, such as "find someone who played video games over summer."

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What's included?

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
• Editable version with clipart included
• Editable version without clipart

How to use:

• Students will walk around the room and find different classmates who fits the description in each box.
• Once they find a classmate who fits the description they will have them write their name in the box.
• Students will keep finding classmates until all 16 boxes are full.

Some examples included:

• Find someone who had a summer birthday.
• Find someone who has an older sibling.
• Find someone who is wearing your favorite color.

Click HERE to see our other find someone who resources!

Click HERE to see our other back to school resources!

Click HERE to see our other team building activities!

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool

Use this back-to-school, first-week activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

⭐AVID Back to School Bundle!⭐

Get the Drawing Challenge Bundle HERE!

⭐Drawing Challenge Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Team Building Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Growing Bundle⭐

What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of the image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

More Back to School AVID Resources...

WICOR Board

30 Second Speeches

More Drawing Challenges...

Year Round General Version

Halloween

End of Year

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources. We also have several great AVID bundle options available down below!

AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

This no-prep After Winter Break Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect icebreaker game to welcome your students after winter break! Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over break with their classmates. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who had a December birthday."

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⭐Save 20% with our Spanish After Winter Break Bundle!⭐

What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one with the title in Spanish and one with the title in English)
• Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases to fit the needs of your own class

How to use:

• Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after winter break themed categories, such as "find someone who stayed up until the New Year."
• The first person who fills in all 16 boxes first wins!

Some examples included:

• Find someone who had a December birthday.
• Find someone who stayed up until the New Year.
• Find someone who helped bake or cook something.

Need more Spanish resources? Click the links below:

Spanish After Winter Break Stand Up Game

Spanish Winter Would You Rather Game

Spanish Winter Activity Bundle

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Use this fall no-prep icebreaker would you rather game as a brain break, morning meeting activity, community building game, or for discussion starters. You can also use this digital autumn-themed resource for questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts. Your students will love having the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly fall traditions!

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What's Included:

• 25 would you rather slides
• 1 directions slide
• 1 directions slide template for you to add your own directions
• 1 editable template for you to add your own would you rather prompts

Directions:

• Display the slides for students.
• Read the two options and students must choose which one they would rather do.
• Students can respond in many different ways: sharing with the whole class, small groups, partners, debating, writing, etc.

Would You Rather Example Slides:

Have a corn cob nose OR have sunflower ears

Hoot like an owl every time you talked OR growl like a bear every time you stand up

Sleep on a bed full of pumpkin guts OR have to eat an entire large pumpkin

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