On Thin Ice! Group Conversation Activity

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by Pinwheel Speech Products

Price: 325 points or $3.25 USD

Subjects: speech,pragmatics,socialAspectsOfCommunication,expressiveLanguage

Grades: 3,4,5,6,7

Description: How long can you keep the conversation going? This winter ICE BREAKER will help your group BREAK THE ICE as you practice conversation skills. In this activity, group members will add piece of ice to the water each time they take a conversational turn by making a comment, asking a question, or answering a question to keep the conversation going! This is a cooperative activity to see how long everyone can keep the conversation going as a group. This cooperative activity is perfect for social skills groups or pragmatic language groups. You can target a variety of skills (maintaining the topic, asking questions, answering questions, taking conversational turns, etc). Most of the questions have a winter/holiday theme ("Talk about your favorite outdoor winter activities") but there are also some general questions included ("Talk about your favorite foods") *Optional: The character on each page is draggable and you could tell group members that the character needs to get across to the other iceberg if you think they are ready to keep the conversation going for 10 turns!