Roles of Conversation Activity

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How to teach Conversation Roles

Using the Roles of Conversation Activity, studentsparticipate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Being a strong speaker and listener helps your students be a good friend and conversationalist. It also takes a lot of practice. This activity will give your students practice speaking about something that is important to them.

Use the Role Cards to determine which role each person in the group will have. Choose a topic or book to discuss. Then, give the students a few minutes to fulfill their role regarding the topic or book.

Other resources to use with this Roles of Conversation Activity

If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about speaking and listening.

Use this Let’s Talk Classroom Speaking Activity as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this activity by students sharing important strategies to use when speaking to a group. Next, students practice those strategies with a partner. Then, students share their stories with the class . Finally, students give their classmates positive feedback about their speaking.

Be sure to check out more Speaking and Listening Activities.

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