Keeping a Conversation Going

Keeping a Conversation Going | Companion Activity helps students develop skills to maintain conversations as demonstrated in the life skills video. Students answer yes/no and WH-questions, sequence conversation maintenance strategies, and retell the video visually. Problem-solving tasks focus on handling pauses and asking follow-up questions. Language activities include categorization of conversational prompts, compare/contrast of active vs. passive conversation skills, and utterance expansion with verbs and prepositions. These exercises foster social communication and engagement.

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify strategies for keeping a conversation going.

  2. Sequence steps to maintain conversations.

  3. Retell the video using visual supports.

  4. Answer comprehension questions about conversational skills.

  5. Solve problems related to pauses and disengagement.

  6. Categorize conversational prompts and responses.

  7. Compare and contrast active vs. passive conversation behaviors.

  8. Use expanded utterances with verbs and prepositions.

  9. Build vocabulary related to social communication.

  10. Promote engaging and reciprocal conversations.

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