5th Grade Oral Communication Activities

Discover the power of impromptu public speaking with this engaging set of 100 Public Speaking Prompts for Kids! Organized into 5 thoughtful categories—Learning, Silly, Gratitude, Fun, and Behavioral—each with 20 unique topics, this collection provides everything teachers need to foster meaningful discussions, inspire confidence, and encourage self-expression in the classroom.

Perfect for quick "speech-on-the-spot" activities, class discussions, or structured speaking practice, these prompts give kids the opportunity to explore new ideas, reflect on values, and share their creativity in a safe, supportive setting.

Skills Kids Will Learn:

• Confidence in expressing ideas and speaking in front of others
• Critical Thinking by reflecting on diverse and thought-provoking topics
• Creativity through imaginative and humorous prompts
• Empathy and Appreciation by recognizing and valuing the perspectives of others
• Listening and Respect as they engage in active discussions with their peers

From exploring fun "What if?" questions to discussing personal growth and appreciation, these topics are designed to build communication skills while tapping into kids’ natural curiosity. Whether you’re focusing on developing social skills or just looking to add more fun and laughter to your day, this pack has something for every classroom!

Engage students with lively discussions about their spring break adventures using these Google Slides featuring interactive images. Encourage participation by asking, 'Stand Up if you...' to prompt sharing. Capture the excitement and memories while fostering communication skills. Explore diverse experiences and create an inclusive environment. Elevate classroom engagement with dynamic visuals and interactive elements. Spark conversations and inspire storytelling with this versatile resource. Discover the joy of reflecting on spring break escapades through student engagement and collaboration. Enhance learning outcomes by utilizing multimedia platforms for interactive discussions. Empower students to share their experiences and foster a sense of community.

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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.

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Question Word Cue Cards | Visual Supports for Answering WH Questions

Are any of your students struggling with auditory processing, understanding of language, question words, expressive language skills, or reading comprehension?

TRY THESE SIMPLE VISUAL CUE CARDS/PROMPT CARDS FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS! :-)

**6 x Visual Cue Cards included **ranging from simple questions to more complex questions:

Simple Questions - who, what, where (concrete- usually requires one word answer).

Complex Questions- when, why, how (more abstract + requires more language/a longer response.

Use them during any literacy or communication activity (mat time, story time, oral language, reading, writing, etc.). You can also print out and laminate large copies for your classroom wall/board, and smaller copies for individual student desks.

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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!

This 12 page package is designed to provide ideas to be used with the student at home and at school. Please try some of the activities and strategies included and use whichever ones you prefer. There is no right or wrong way to play, as long as you are all having fun and there is no fighting. Please tell the student what lovely playing they are doing and why it is good. For example, praise should be specific such as “I love the way you share.”

This package explores the following speech development areas:

- Basic strategies

- Play ideas – indoors and outdoors

- When playing

- Language and play

- Sound development.

This is a great handout program for allied health staff, teachers and parents. Simply print and implement!

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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.

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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.

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.

MESSY BEDROOM Elementary PE Gym Team Game Teamwork, Cooperation, Communication

MESSY BEDROOM is a must-have activity for any elementary PE curriculum. Get your elementary students energized and engaged with this TEAMWORK, COOPERATION and COMMUNICATION game.

Designed by and for physical education teachers, this exciting activity puts a fun, fast-paced twist on the classic game of The Floor is Lava.

Students will love the challenge of this strategy and teamwork game which also gives them plenty of opportunity to work on their balance and locomotor skills.

This easy-to-play partner or small group team game is always a big hit and my fifth grade students love this game just as much as my kindergarten students because it is non-stop action and loads of fun!

Bring the excitement of this dynamic team game to your classroom and watch your students have a blast while learning important PE skills!

This resource includes:

-Eye Catching One Page Easy-to-Follow MESSY BEDROOM Lesson Plan (Perfect for easily giving to a substitute teacher, although with this game I would not, lol)

-Diagram of Game Set-Up and Play

Perfect for Students in Grades K-5

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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.

Enhance collaboration, writing and public speaking skills with Story Starters! This AVID resource provides engaging story starters that encourage students to finish a story and present it to their peers. This activity fosters collaboration and communication within small groups or whole class settings, while also providing a fun way to improve public speaking skills. Download the Google Slides digital resource today and see the positive impact it can have on your students' teamwork and confidence!

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Directions:

• Display the Google Slide Story Starter OR print them out so students have different stories to choose from.
• Students will complete the engaging story starter by writing for 3 minutes.
• Students can use the picture provided to help guide them in their stories, or choose to take a different route and be creative on their own.
• Students will be split into groups of 4-6.
• Each student will present their story to their small group while practicing public speaking skills.

What's Included:

• 3 Story Starter Prompts with Images
• 1 Directions Page

*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Are you in search of SEL icebreaker games and activities for your morning meetings or when getting to know new students? This cute SEL icebreaker game is perfect for breaking the ice with small groups, new students, classroom guidance lessons, or as a getting to know you activity. 

Build a S'more While You Learn S'more forces children to step outside their comfort zone and interact with others. Have endless fun with this resource when using it as a get to know me activity, back to school resource, icebreaker activity, small group activity, or rapport-building game!

Included in Download:

• 45 Grahmn Cracker Cards
• 27 Marshmallow Cards
• 27 Chocolate Cards
• 9 Tell Me S'more Free Passes

Use this SEL icebreaker game to help foster positive interactions among your students! Students will feel relaxed and at ease as they answer questions and "build" a s'more with their new friends. 

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This SEL icebreaker game and activity is copyright © Mrs. Bell The Crafty Counselor. Therefore, all rights are reserved by the author. Copying for more than one user is prohibited.

Kids choose one emotion and one action and have to act out the action with the expression of the emotion.

Targeted Skills Include:

• Nonverbal communication: interpreting body language, facial expressions and gestures.
• Social Awareness: Observation skills and critical thinking
• Self-Awareness: Students have to be aware of how their actions are being interpreted
• Team Building: Play in teams for as a whole class this game is funny and non-competitive

Lots of replay value!

Easy to differentiate for diverse learners!

This resource includes:

• 28 emotions in text form
• 42 actions in text form
• 1 blank template to write your own
• 24 emotions in picture + text form
• 48 actions in picture + text form

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Shopping & Grocery List Visual Supports for Special Education, Early Intervention, & Speech Therapy.

4 resources included:

- Going Shopping Visual Schedule with a number of common food item visuals, as well as the Sequencing Visuals for what to do when visiting the grocery store (e.g. checking shopping list, getting a trolley, finding items, paying at the checkout, etc.).

- Shopping List template (6 item list) with three pages of shopping item visuals (fruits, vegetables, snacks & other).

- Personalized 'Shopping List' template where students' names can be added.

-** Shopping List template (9 item list).**

Can also be paired with my Food Category Sorting Board Activity.

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Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with this Zoomed In / Guess the Picture Game! Use this game as a no-prep St. Patrick's Day party game, brain break, icebreaker, morning meeting activity or classroom spring activity in your kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade, third-grade, and fourth-grade students! Students will love trying to guess what these Saint Patrick's Day images are!

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What's Included:

• 20 zoomed-in mystery pictures
• 20 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• editable Google Slides template to customize your own zoomed in images
• directions slide

Some zoomed-in pictures you will see:

• leprechaun
• four leaf clover
• pot of gold
• shamrock sunglasses

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Would You Rather

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Team Building Public Speaking and Listening Card Game Activity- Connect the DotsThis: This Card Game is the ultimate public speaking team-building resource for your AVID students (or any content area) - This engaging and educational card game is designed to help students develop their public speaking skills and build teamwork in a fun and interactive way. It is perfect for AVID classrooms and beyond! It's suitable for use in AVID classrooms, as well as any classroom that values public speaking and teamwork.

Connect the dots boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters collaboration. Through playing this card game, students will gain the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in public speaking and work effectively in teams, setting them up for success both in and out of the classroom.

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How to Play Connect the Dots

• Print, cut, and laminate the 200 cards provided.

• Put the word cards into box or non-see through bag.

• A player picks two cards and then must immediately begin telling a story connecting both words together convincingly. The story should only be 1-2 minutes, complicated, or true!

• Once your class is comfortable with connecting two words, add to your word collection and increase the number of cards selected to three or even four.

Skills

• Moving from one idea to another smoothly, in a way that can be readily understood and followed by your audience, is a must-have public speaking skill.

• Connect the Dots gives people the opportunity to practice. Finding a way to conenct the words and practicing the ability to make those connections will become stronger and stronger.

• An added benefit of the game is listening and learning from each other.

What's Included

• Directions page
• Skills page
• Example story
• 200 word cards
• blank cards to write your own words

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The Board Game! Teach students how to recognize and respond to emotional situations. Included: 8x10 Game Board 60 Double-Sided Situation Cards Game Guidelines Game Pieces You will need a single dice to play. After teaching each emotion (sad, uneasy, surprised, angry, disgusted, and happy) play this game with your student or small group. Follow the game guidelines and enjoy playing this game with your students. Assembly: Print pages 7-16, double-sided, on cardstock. Laminate for extra durability. When cards speak of emotion words, they are referring to the words used on the posters in the first lesson “Teaching Emotions”. Refer to this if you are teaching the two lessons in conjunction with one another. If you are not, simply ask the student to provide synonyms for the emotions they are describing. Example: Emotion is sad. Emotion words could be blue, upset, fragile, unhappy, down, etc. There are two types of game pieces; flat and pop up. To create the flat pieces, cut on the dotted lines. To create the pop ups, cut on the dotted lines and fold on the solid lines. Feel free to substitute anything you would like for the game pieces. You could use coins, chips, the possibilities are endless, get creative! Game Rules: All players pick a game piece and begin in square #1: The first player rolls a single dice and moves the appropriate amount of spaces (1-6). If they land in a space that does not have a chameleon in it, the next person takes a turn. If they land on a space that has a chameleon on a flower vine, (example space #4, #7, #11, #15, #23, #26, #30, #34, #42), they pick a Situation Card from the pile. They read the situation out loud, and answer all of the questions (one to three questions per Situation Card). If they answer all questions correctly, they follow the worms to a higher space, closer to the food bowl (and the winners circle). If they answer incorrectly they stay put. If they land on a space that has a chameleon on a tree branch, (example space #9, #13, #20, #27, #31, #36, #45, #46) they automatically slide down to the lower level. They then pick a Situation Card, if they answer all parts correctly, they get another turn and roll the dice again. The game is over when someone reaches the winner’s circle. I hope your students have a BLAST with this game!! This is now part of a bundle! Click here for great savings! Mrs. Bell The Crafty Counselor
Understanding Emotions by Mrs. Bell, The Crafty Counselor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Graphics: @Charlotte Braddock 2013 www.TeachShare.com/Store/Charlottes-Clips

Build positive peer connections with these fun, fill-in-the-blank conversation starters!

Perfect for building communication skills, confidence, and friendships in kids.

Get your students up and moving by making a game out of teaching conversation skills!

Print out the papers, laminate and then put them on the floor with the students forming a circle around them.

Then take turns tossing a bean bag to the sentence starters and have your students complete the sentence and then ask a peer the same question.

Included:

24 full page conversation starter prompts

Same 24 conversation prompts but smaller version (4 to a page)

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SIMPLE LOW-TECH AAC CORE BOARD: A one page premade **COMMUNICATION BOARD **featuring **CORE VOCABULARY **('Social Chat' version). Simply print and go!

Do you have autistic/neurodiverse or non verbal learners in your classroom who are struggling to communicate & engage with others? Are you wanting to support their communication & social interactions in a natural, positive, and pressure-free way?

TRY THIS SIMPLE & EASY TO IMPLEMENT TOOL! :-)

Perfect for classrooms and home use, this tool helps build receptive & expressive language skills and supports social connections over time.

Simply **model the vocabulary **on the board by pointing to the symbols and saying the corresponding word/phrase (e.g. "hello", "let's play", "It's my turn", "this is fun", "I like this game", "help please", "finished on the swing", "let's do something else", "bye", etc.).

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• 'Social Chat' Communication Board.
• Two Versions (Colour + Outline).
• Directions for use.
• Link to Special Education FREEBIES.

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