What's the Tone?

by Badger State Speechy

Price: 700 points or $7 USD

Subjects: speech,voice,socialAspectsOfCommunication,pragmatics

Grades: 6,7,8,9,10

Description: It's hard to find materials to work on tone of voice for middle and high school students. This set has four tiers of activities to work on identifying emotional tone and producing it accurately. Includes: Self-ratings for students & teaching slides, Identify Emotional Tone, Level 1:  In these activities, tone and words match.  Student listens to sentence and choose emotional tone from choice of 3 fun emojis. Identify Emotional Tone Level 2:  In these activities, tone and words don't match. Students listen to the sentence and identify the emotion of the tone. but not necessarily, the words, given 3 emotion emojis. Then, they can say what tone should have been used. Practice Emotional Tone Level 1: students are given a sentence to practice having their own tones of voice match that one emotion. Students can hear models of emotional tone and record themselves practicing the tone and then rate themselves. Therapist provides feedback. Practice Emotional Tone Level 2: students say one sentence 3 different ways, using 3 different emotional tones. Students can hear models of emotional tone. Students then record and rate their practice sentences. Therapist provides feedback. All directions and statements are pre-recorded. Students press on microphone icon for directions and mouth icon to hear the sentences read to them. Perfect for assigning for homework.