Improve students' speaking and listening skills with these task cards that start meaningful conversations for your students. There are 50 task cards that show a question to discuss, tell and listen, and then discuss some more. These task cards work well in a morning circle setup or anytime that you want to teach speaking and listening skills in your classroom. Each card shows one question.
Some example questions are:
- What traits do you look for in a best friend?
- How do you show kindness at recess time?
- Tell about a time when you helped someone. How did you feel?
- Name 2 things that you really don't need, but you feel lucky to have them.
- Name something that you do everyday that helps the world.
- If you had a robot for one day, what would you program it to do?
- What might happen if animals could drive cars and trucks?
- Do you think classroom rules help you to learn? Please give examples to explain your answer.
- If a cat could talk, what would he say?
- If you had $1,000, how much would you spend? How much would you save? How much would you share? Elaborate on each.
There are 50 total questions. Some examples are stated above. Easy to prepare your task cards... just download and print. Also included are a half-sheet response page if your students need to prepare and write notes for their answers. Two classroom posters are included also. One on speaking and another on listening. Post these near your circle time space. Get your Circle Time cards here and improve speaking and listening skills in your classroom.
