5th Grade Oral Communication Activities

My Speech Program - Activities and Strategies for Speech Development

By All Therapy Resources

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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After Winter Break Printable Partner Activity - Bottle Flip

By Teach Savvy Store

Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area) who are returning to school after winter break! This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

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How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 50 "after winter break" question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

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

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AVID Team Building Public Speaking Card Game Activity- Connect the Dots

By Teach Savvy Store

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

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

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After Spring Break Printable Partner Activity - Bottle Flip

By Teach Savvy Store

Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area) who are returning to school after spring break! This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

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How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 50 "after spring break" question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

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

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$2.75

Team Building Public Speaking Card Game Activity - History Snippets

By Teach Savvy Store

Team Building Public Speaking / Listening Card Game Activity - History Snippets: This team-building card game is the perfect icebreaker for AVID students (or students in any content) who want to practice their public speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. Designed for use in a classroom or group setting, this card game challenges players to give a 1-2 minute speech about an invention or event in history using the card they draw. This engaging activity not only helps students build their public speaking confidence but also teaches them valuable skills in communication and creative thinking!

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How to Play History Snippets

  • Put the 100 topic cards/papers into a non-see-through bag.

  • Put players into teams of 4-6 players.

  • When it's their turn a player pulls a topic from the bag. They then must give an account of the history (story) behind the thing or event they've drawn. It can be factual or false! Encourage imagination, outrageous lies, flights of fantasy...

  • The goal of this public speaking game is to sustain credible fluency. Aim for 1 - 2 minutes per story.

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 100 history/invention cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

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After Fall Break Partner Game: Bottle Flip Icebreaker & Classroom Activity

By Teach Savvy Store

Kick off the return from Fall Break with this engaging Bottle Flip Partner Game! This printable activity is perfect for icebreakers, team-building, or quick classroom fun. Keep students active and excited with a hands-on game designed for easy use in any classroom setting.

This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

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Check out the After Fall Break Bundle HERE!

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How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 50 "after fall break" question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words
  • editable cards template in Google Slides

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

More fall resources...

I'm Thankful For Cell Phone

Turkey Career Research Project

The Landlady Activites

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$2.50

Back to School Partner Icebreaker | Team Building Activity - Bottle Flip

By Teach Savvy Store

Partner Icebreaker | Team Building Activity - Bottle Flip: Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area). This activity allows students to talk and share their personal beliefs, ideas, and experiences. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

Bundle and save over 30%:

✨AVID Mega Bundle✨

Team Building Bundle

Partner Games Bundle

Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 60 question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

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

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

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$2.75

AVID Public Speaking Activity - Fishbowl Speeches

By Teach Savvy Store

This AVID team-building card game is the perfect icebreaker for students who want to practice their public speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. Designed for use in a classroom or group setting, this card game challenges players to give a 1-minute speech about a topic using the card they draw. This engaging activity not only helps students build their public speaking confidence but also teaches them valuable skills in communication and creative thinking!

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, Fishbowl Speeches is the perfect choice!

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AVID bundle

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History Snippets

Connect the Dots

Commercial Cards

How to Play Fishbowl Speeches

  • Place the 25 different topics into a container and mix them up to ensure random selection.
  • Ask a student to select a topic from the container and read it out loud.
  • Allow 30 seconds for the student to brainstorm the content and delivery of their speech. Provide one minute for the student to present their answer to the question or topic.

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 25 Topics
  • blank cards to write your own words

Example topics

Persuade everyone in the class to give you a dollar

Should colleges use only SAT®/ACT® scores for admissions?

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AVID Public Speaking Card Game Activity - Commercial Cards

By Teach Savvy Store

Looking for an engaging and fun way to help your AVID (or any content area) students build team building and public speaking skills? Look no further than our AVID team building and public speaking card game! Whether you're looking to encourage creativity, boost confidence, or foster teamwork, this AVID team-building and public speaking card game is the perfect choice for your classroom.

With this innovative card game, students will draw a card featuring a unique image and then have the opportunity to present a 1-2 minute commercial for their group, with the freedom to be as silly or serious as they want.

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What's Included:

  • Directions page
  • 90 commercial image cards
  • blank cards to write your own words or images

Directions:

  • Print, cut, and laminate the 90 image cards provided.
  • Put the picture cards into a box or non-see through bag.
  • Put students in groups of 4-6.
  • Player draws a card and has 30 seconds to prepare a commercial for the item drawn.
  • The commercial should only be 1-2 minutes, silly or serious!

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AVID Team Building Story Starters for Public Speaking and Writing Skills

By Teach Savvy Store

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

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AVID Halloween Team Building Card Game Activity for Public Speaking

By Teach Savvy Store

Halloween Team Building and Public Speaking Card Game Activity- Connect the Dots: This Halloween AVID inspired Card Game is the ultimate public speaking and team-building resource for 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. Students will draw 2 Halloween-themed cards and try to connect the 2 words by telling a story with them.

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

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

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

$2.50

AVID Icebreaker Partner Interview Introductions Form for Team Building Activity

By Teach Savvy Store

Enhance team collaboration and communication with this AVID Partner Interview Introductions Form. This is a perfect icebreaker and team building activity where students have the opportunity to get to know each other while practicing public speaking skills. Simply print the Google Doc and give hard copies to students, or share the Google Doc with students electronically.

Interview introductions are a great way to break the ice with a new group of students. This excersize has them finding out about each other and then introducing the person they interviewed to the entire class or to smaller groups. It is a lot less threatening to talk about someone else rather than yourself!

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Directions

  • Divide your class into pairs.

  • Each person interviews the other. The information gained forms a brief introduction speech they'll present to the class OR to smaller groups.

  • Establish a time limit for the interviews. 10 minutes works well. Keep track of the time and call change at the halfway point, 5 minutes, to ensure both people get an opportunity to be interviewed and to interview.

  • When students present the introduction may begin like this: "This is Mary and she was named after her mother..." and the students will go through each answer by presenting it like a speech.

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AVID Team Building Drawing Activity for Communication Skills

By KJ Inspired Resources

Use this activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team building resource 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 relationship 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

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AVID Four Corners - Career Exploration Clusters - Team Building Activity

By KJ Inspired Resources

In this AVID game of four corners, students will have the opportunity to reflect on their own passions and see what they have in common with others. Students will have a discussion on different career explorations and interests. This game is a great way to build community and get students thinking about their future careers!

What's Included:

  • 4 corner signs (strongly agree, agree, strongly disagree, disagree)
  • 20 career related statements

Directions:

  • Label each of the four corners of your room with signs for the following: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree.
  • Pose one of the four statements below to the students.
  • They should move quietly to the corner that best represents their individual answer to the statement.
  • Encourage students to think about their personal responses, not to just follow their friends or the crowd.
  • Once students are in the corners, give them a couple of minutes to share their responses before posing the next statement.

Uses:

  • framework Friday

  • teambuilding

  • morning meeting

  • school counseling

  • AVID

  • communication

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AVID Team Building Activity - Team Machine Challenge - Printable Game

By KJ Inspired Resources

Good communication 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 relationship as well as develop necessary skills!

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What's Included:

  • cover page
  • directions page
  • 32 machine cards

Directions:

  • Print machine cards.
  • Divide the class into multiple groups of 3-4 students.
  • Groups take turns drawing a machine card.
  • The group must work together to act out the machine without talking or creating noise and every group member must participate.
  • The other groups in the audience have to guess what machine group members are acting out.
  • Discuss the challenges of working as a team and have students reflect on the EQ.

Uses:

  • teambuilding
  • communication practice
  • listening practice
  • framework Friday

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AVID Public Speaking Activity - Debate Topics and Sentence Starters

By KJ Inspired Resources

Giving students plenty of public speaking practice is important, but thinking of fun topics takes time! This is an activity with this sample 5 fun and engaging speech topics for your students to practice those very important college and career readiness skills! Get the full version HERE. :)

Directions

  • Share expectations of respectful debating
  • Organize students into small groups or create one large circle
  • Read the debate prompt out loud
  • Students choose a side and think of at least one reason why they chose that side
  • When students have at least one reason they hold up a thumb
  • Choose a student to begin the debate

What's Included

  • 1 directions slide
  • 1 expectations slide for students
  • 1 optional points slide
  • 5 debate topis with agreeing/disagreeing chart and sentence starters

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Fall Icebreaker Activity - Would You Rather Questions

By KJ Inspired Resources

Use this fall no-prep icebreaker would you rather game as a brain break, morning meeting activity, community building game, or for discussion starters. You can also use this digital autumn-themed resource for questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts. Your students will love having the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly fall traditions!

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What's Included:

  • 25 would you rather slides
  • 1 directions slide
  • 1 directions slide template for you to add your own directions
  • 1 editable template for you to add your own would you rather prompts

Directions:

  • Display the slides for students.
  • Read the two options and students must choose which one they would rather do.
  • Students can respond in many different ways: sharing with the whole class, small groups, partners, debating, writing, etc.

Would You Rather Example Slides:

Have a corn cob nose OR have sunflower ears

Hoot like an owl every time you talked OR growl like a bear every time you stand up

Sleep on a bed full of pumpkin guts OR have to eat an entire large pumpkin

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Back to School Activity | Find Someone Who Bingo Game | Editable

By KJ Inspired Resources

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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AVID Back to School Team Building Drawing Activity | Communication Skills

By KJ Inspired Resources

Use this back-to-school, first-week 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

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WICOR Board

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Year Round General Version

Halloween

End of Year

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AVID Halloween Team Building Drawing Activity for Communication Skills

By KJ Inspired Resources

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!

Check out the general version Team Drawing Challenge to use all year!

Save 30% with the AVID team-building bundle!

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

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources. We also have several great AVID bundle options available down below!

AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

$3.00