Best Review – Top 5 Communication Skills Lesson Plans (grades 6 to 8) October 8, 2010

Do you wish to teach your middle school students about using good communication skills techniques? Students will also learn the difference between responsible reporting and tattling or snitching. Here are the links to five lesson plans that could help.

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Info 101: 5 Communication Skills lesson plans for middle school August 18, 2010

Do you wish to teach your middle school students about using good communication skills techniques? Students will also learn the difference between responsible reporting and tattling or snitching. Here are the links to five lesson plans that could help.

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Mini Lesson Plan: Josh Takes a Risk (grades 4-8) March 7, 2010

After reading the Communication Skills story called “Josh Takes a Risk,” students will take part in a variety of follow-up activities to enhance the learning experience. Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.

Step 1: Read the story called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Story Description: Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

Step 2: Have class participate in the role-play based on the story called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Communication Skills role-play: Josh Takes a Risk

Step 3: Have class participate in discussion questions about this story.

Let’s Discuss Josh Takes a Risk

Let’s Discuss Communication Skills Tale: Josh Takes a Risk

After reading the story called “Josh Takes a Risk,” hold a class discussion using these ten discussion questions. You can also act the story out by using the scripted role-play provided.

Link to Communication Skills story: Josh Takes a Risk

Link to Communication Skills role-play: Josh Takes a Risk

Click COMMUNICATION SKILLS to read ten Class Discussion Questions as a follow-up to the story called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Communication Skills role-play: Josh Takes a Risk March 5, 2010

Visit this page to get the link to the PDF file for the scripted role-play to print for classroom use called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

A. Students participate in scripted role-play called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Story Description: This role-play called “Josh Takes a Risk” illustrates the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.

Additional Note: Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

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Communication Skills Tale – Josh Takes a Risk March 4, 2010

Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

A. Teacher reads story to the class called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

B. Story Description: This story called “Josh Takes a Risk” illustrates the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.

Click COMMUNICATION SKILLS to read the entire short story.

Communication Skills Lesson Plan (Grades 4-8) – Goofy Jane February 20, 2010

Click COMMUNICATION SKILLS to read the entire lesson plan for “Goofy Jane.” Links to all eight sections of the lesson are included.

How to use skits to teach making good eye contact – Skit 1 of 13 January 11, 2010

Eye Contact - An important Communication Skill created with Powerpoint

One of the main things that all good communicators should do is make good eye contact with each other when you speak and actively listen when it is someone else’s turn to speak.

Here is a fun skit that will help illustrate this point for your students. The students will be directed to display a bad communication skill. Then the class will guess which technique they should have done to be better communicators.

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How to become a better communicator via fun role-play called “Goofy Jane”

Eighteen-year-old Jane is training to be a singer, dancer, and actress so she can become a Hollywood movie star. She nearly blows her chance to fulfill her dream as she breaks every communication skill rule with a Hollywood agent by the name of Mr. Headworthy.

ROLE-PLAY - Communication Skills

Feel free to read or download this role-play at the link included in the resource section. It is provided by Debbie Dunn aka DJ Lyons, the School Conflict Resolution Examiner for Examiner.com. She posts free stories, role-plays, articles, and lesson plans on the subjects of Conflict Resolution and coping with bullies.

In any case, this ‘how to’ article teaches some ways to become a better communicator by striving to NOT do any of things done by Goofy Jane. After all, Goofy, Goofy, Goofy Jane. No one’s as goofy as Jane! Are they? Goofy Jane! Goofy Jane! No one’s as goofy as Jane.

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K-W-L Model discussion for Communication Skills role-play: Goofy Jane January 7, 2010

K-W-L MODEL - Communication Skills

Class will discuss the K & W of the K-W-L Model at beginning of lesson: What do you know and what do you want to know about the techniques used by good communicators? At the end of the lesson, they will close with the L discussion: What have you learned about the techniques used by good communicators?

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