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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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 observations – Skit 2 of 13 January 11, 2010

Good Observations - An important Communication Skill created with Powerpoint

One of the main things that all good communicators should do is make good observations about when it is your turn to speak and when it is your turn to 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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Communication Skills writing assignment: Goofy Jane January 5, 2010

WRITE - Communication Skills

Instructional objective: Students will write about the six levels of the Bloom’s Taxonomy Discussion Questions for the Communication Skills role-play called “Goofy Jane.”

Link to Communication Skills Role-Play: After participating in the role-play called “Goofy Jane,” have the students answer the following questions. Links to the lesson plan included at the end of the article.

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Communication Skills Lesson Plan (Grades 4-8) – Fred learns to make Good Observations January 1, 2010

LESSON PLAN - COMMUNICATION SKILLS

This is the Lesson Plan Hub page for “Fred learns to make Good Observations.” Links to all nine sections of the lesson are included.

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Lesson Objectives for teaching about Communication Skills

LESSON OBJECTIVES - Communication Skills

Section 1: Lesson Objectives for Teaching about Communication Skills.

Clicking on this resource link leads you to the following 10 items:
(A) Character Traits Addressed
(B) Conflict Resolution Strategies Addressed
(C) Other Concepts Addressed
(D) Cognitive/Instructional Objectives
(E) Emotional Objectives
(F) Behavioral Objectives
(G) Glossary Of Terms
(H) Lesson Length
(I) Links for Teaching Posters for Classroom Use
(J) Links for all the Communication Skills stories and lesson plans.

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Communication Skills Vocabulary for Fred learns to make Good Observations December 31, 2009

VOCABULARY - Communication Skills

Communication Skills Vocabulary used in story called “Fred learns to make Good Observations.” Class will discuss any still unclear Glossary of Terms.

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K-W-L Model discussion for Communication Skills tale: Fred learns to make Good Observations December 30, 2009

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 importance of making good observations? At the end of the lesson, they will close with the L discussion: What have you learned about the importance of making good observations?

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