7th 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!

Social Skills Text Messages | Text Messaging | Communication Skills Activities

About This Resource

★ Social Skills Text Messages

★ Features 20 Text Messaging Worksheets in 2 Variations

★ Print and Digital (PDF and Google Slides)

★ Suitable for Upper Elementary, Middle, and High School

★ Sample Responses included

★ Social Emotional Learning

This resource includes:

☆ 20 Text Message Worksheets (with Background Information)

☆ 20 Text Message Worksheets (without Background Information)

☆ Sample Responses

☆ Google Slide Link

Teens today are constantly connected through their cell phones, with texting being one of the primary ways they communicate. While texting makes it easy to stay in touch, it also comes with challenges, as tone and intent can often be misunderstood without face-to-face interaction. Developing strong social skills for texting is essential to ensure that messages are clear, respectful, and considerate of others' feelings. By practicing thoughtful communication, teens can navigate social situations more effectively and avoid unnecessary conflicts or misunderstandings.

This resource features 20 different text conversations designed to help students develop their communication and social skills. Each conversation comes in two versions:

★ Without background information for students ready to respond on their own.

★ With background information included at the bottom of the worksheet to provide additional context and support for thoughtful responses.

The background information is great for students who need extra help understanding the situation and encourages them to respond while considering others' feelings and social dynamics. This format makes it easy to differentiate and meet students' individual needs.

Sample responses are included to support teachers in guiding discussions and providing examples for students.

This worksheet is perfect for practicing empathy, improving social skills, and learning how to handle everyday interactions with care and thoughtfulness.

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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.

Two colour options available - Full colour, and colour outline.

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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 no-prep Weekend Chat Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect icebreaker activity the morning students return from the weekend. Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over the weekend. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who played video games."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one title in Spanish and one title in English)
• Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

Some examples included:

• Find someone who did some exercise.
• Find someone who stayed at home all weekend.
• Find someone who stayed up all night.

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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.

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

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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

If you like this one, you'll like:

Speak Up or Let it Go?

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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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This resource should be used with Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart. With this activity, students will read the M'Naghten rule of 1843 and decide whether or not they believe the main character of The Tell-Tale Heart would be found legally sane or insane. This resource includes space for students to collect textual evidence to support their answer, space for students to write other open-ended questions for discussion, and a discussion grading rubric.

I used this activity with my 8th grade students, and they absolutely loved it. They found great evidence to back up their explanations, and gained a deeper understanding of the short story and the M'Naghten rule. We used this resource in a socratic seminar formatted discussion, and they had enough to say about the main character and the M'Naghten rule that the majority of our 55 minute class period was covered.

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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Teach your students conflict resolution skills & self-awareness through learning about the 4 basic communication styles:

1. Passive
2. Assertive
3. Aggressive
4. Passive-Aggressive

Perfect for your Social Skills Group, School Counseling Group, or Speech Therapy Session!

Students take turns reading scenarios aloud and then randomly picking a response from those that are scattered on the table. They read the response aloud and think about which communication style it represents and puts the response strip under which communication style they think it corresponds to.

This is an interactive way (no writing required!) to get your students to reflect on the different ways to respond to tricky situations that often come up. Help them see how nuance in tone, word choice, and body language all affect how they are perceived by others and help them understand what others are trying to communicate to them.

Included are:

• 40 different social scenarios that are typical for students
• 20 potentially passive responses
• 20 potentially assertive responses
• 20 potentially aggressive responses
• 20 potentially passive-aggressive responses
• 1 page of questions to ask your students to promote group discussion
• 1 page of color reference guide explaining the communication styles
• 1 page black and white reference guide explaining communication styles
• 1 page for categorizing the responses
• Large print headers of the 4 communication styles for which the students can use to categorize the responses.

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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!

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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

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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.

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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

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Group perspective taking activity targets social awareness, finding common interests, and conversation skills.

Kids to have fun learning about others and sharing about themselves. Students have to think like their peers in order to try to guess what their peers would choose.

This Social Emotional resource contains:

• an instruction sheet to plan your lesson
• 5 sheets of 12 cards with only words (60 pairs total)
• 1 sheet of 12 cards with only pictures
• 1 sheet of 12 cards with the same pictures and written text underneath
• one blank grid so you can write your own or have your students make their own!

Just cut along the perforated lines and fold along the solid lines. Then turn the cards face down. Kids take turns picking a card and reading the 2 choices. Then the rest of the group has to try to guess what that player would choose. (Not what they would choose!). The player then tells the group their preference.

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