Recommended for adolescents and adults, this board game tasks players with considering and providing solutions to a wide array of awkward social situations
Social Skills Activities: Speaking to Different Listeners
Social Skills - Speaking to Different Listeners
Social Skills: Speaking To
Different Listeners
Related Social Emotional Learning Activities in PDF to Different Listeners
Editing Verbal Narratives Worksheets
Ideal for anyone who gives too much information, this task works on the ability to regard one’s listener when choosing which information to include in verbal narratives
Polite Wording
Students learn to regard others’ feelings and are tasked with incorporating given “softening” words and phrases into opinion statements and requests
Tact
Students discuss provided tactless statements, learning to identify properties of offensiveness, bragging, inappropriateness, over-generalization, and prejudice
Writing A Complaint Letter
Another favorite! Both a writing and social skills task, this product improves the ability to regard one’s reader when choosing content and wording
Perspective Taking Worksheets
Students are assigned the task of observing social interactions and speculating on the emotional effect of those interactions on the participants
Developing Empathy Activities
This comprehensive social skills product includes extensive discussion, an activity, homework, and therapeutic notes, all targeting the ability to regard others’ feelings
Communication Skills Questionaire
Students check which social skills they’d like to work on in the areas of conversation, practical skills, non-verbal, dating, and conflict
Kinesics and Conversation Skills
This social skills activity encourages and trains students to identify non-verbal signs of interest and disinterest during conversations and social interactions
Time Sensitivity
An engaging activity that increases students’ awareness of their listeners’ needs and improves their ability to limit their content to fit those needs
Entering Conversations
An outline of the steps necessary to enter a conversation already in progress, including body proximity, verbal strategies, and determination of acceptance
Elaboration in Conversations
This conversation skills handout teaches students ways to extend conversations by demonstrating ratings for a variety of answers to the same question in terms of elaboration