Less than $5 Middle School 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.

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.

Embark on a mythical adventure with this set of 30 HeadBands cards featuring iconic figures from Ancient Greek mythology!

From powerful gods and goddesses to courageous heroes and fearsome monsters, test your knowledge and have fun guessing who you are.

This pack includes:

1. 30 cards featuring a variety of well-known characters from Greek mythology.
2. A diverse range of figures: Gods like Zeus and Poseidon, heroes like Hercules and Apollo, monsters like Medusa and the Minotaur, and more!

Engaging gameplay: Perfect for any elementart or middle school classroom.

Educational value: Learn about Greek mythology while having fun!

How to Play:

Insert a card into your headband or stick it to your forehead without looking at it.

Ask yes or no questions to the other players to figure out who you are.

Be the first to guess your character correctly to win!

With this pack, your HeadBands game will reach Olympian heights!

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

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Back to School

After Thanksgiving Break

After Winter Break

After Spring Break

End of Year

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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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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.

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Spanish After Spring Break Stand Up Sit Down Game

Spanish After Spring Break Find Someone Who

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Need a no-prep engaging ice breaker activity to end this school year with a bang? This interactive and engaging before summer break game is designed to help your students reflect on their academic accomplishments and experiences throughout the school year as well as share exciting plans for the summer!

Find someone who will help build classroom community while practicing speaking and listening skills. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various end of year and summer themed categories, such as "someone who made you laugh this year" This is the perfect activity to end the school year with!

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 fit 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 has plans to make some money this summer.
• Find someone who was never absent this year.
• Find someone who inspired you this year.

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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!

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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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Welcome your students back to school and build your classroom community with these 3 different Dicebreakers! This printable icebreaker activity is a fun conversation starter during the first week of school OR to continue building on relationships during the school year. These questions have been designed to initiate conversation between students and highlight similarities in interests and experiences.

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What's Included:

• 3 different dice with 6 different questions on each on colored dice
• the same 3 dice in black and white versions
• directions page
• easy to follow directions are on each dice for students

Uses:

AVID

Counseling

Teambuilding

Framework Friday

First Week of School

Brainbreak

Indoor recess

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Use this Earth Day team-building activity to not only get students excited about learning how we can protect our Earth but also as a way to promote good communication and public speaking skills! This printable game is also great for use as a brain break, morning meeting activity, indoor recess, transition activity, reward and so much more.

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What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 Earth Day-themed drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of image cards.
• Divide the class into 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 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:

• Earth Day challenge
• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• Fun Friday
• and more!

Earth Day

Activity Packet

Would You Rather

Find Someone Who

Symmetry Drawings

Spring

Finish the Story

Would You Rather

Activity Packet

Find Someone Who

Stand Up

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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Use this AVID resource when students begin their argumentative writing! Students will quickly develop arguments on a variety of topics through a speed style variation of Philosophical Chairs. In turn, students will not only craft their thesis statements and come up with arguments for their essays, but they will also increase their public speaking and collaboration skills!

Overview:

Philosophical Chairs: Speed Formation utilizes many of the same components of the classic version, but is a fun, fast-paced variation that can be utilized during shortened class periods. This variation of Philosophical Chairs should only be utilized after students have developed their skills through the classic style.

What's Included:

• 1 student objective slides
• 1 overview slide
• 1 argumentative prompt slide
• 2 thesis statement teaching slides
• 6 rules of engagement slides/steps
• 2 basic norm slides
• 1 google doc where students reflect on the philosophical chairs

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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.

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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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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!

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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

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Summer Games & Activities Bundle

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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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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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Drawing Challenge

More 30-Second Speeches...

General Version with 25 Topics

Summer 30 Second Speeches

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Use this printable activity to help welcome students back to school by allowing them to share experiences! This activity makes a great icebreaker, community building activity, brain break activity or Fun Friday activity.

Find someone who will help build classroom community while practicing speaking and listening skills. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various Spring Break-themed categories, such as "someone who slept in past noon" This is the perfect activity to allow students to socialize and catch up with their classmates after spring break.

✨After Spring Break Bundle✨

✨Spring Bundle✨

✨AVID Bundle✨

What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
• Editable Google Slides file (option 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 got sick.
• Find someone who went on a vacation.
• Find someone who rode on a boat.

More After Spring Break Resources

Activity Packet

Stand Up Sit Down

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