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Practice skills in speaking, listening, and remembering.
Share details of their lives with one another.

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Notebook or notebook paper

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Read through and familiarize yourself with the entire activity.

You may wish to invite a second adult or a responsible teen to help you lead the activity. While you interview the children in step 4, the second leader may record examples of statements that the children say.

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Tell children that today they will be practicing 3 very important skills: speaking, listening, and remembering.
Have children suggest some useful rules when someone is speaking. Lead them to recognize that the most useful rules are to listen to the person and to not talk while they are speaking.
Tell children that they will each get a chance to speak to the group. While a child is speaking, everyone should listen carefully. Remind students that remembering is also a part of today’s activity.
Have children sit in a circle, and then ask for a volunteer to go first. Invite the volunteer to stand next to you, and then ask them a few questions to prompt them to talk about themselves and their lives. Consider questions like the ones listed below. In addition, to keep all children engaged, invite group members to pose their own questions to the speaker.
- What did you do at home yesterday or over the weekend?
- Do you have any pets? What are their names? Are they friendly?
- Have you visited any interesting places recently, such as a zoo, an aquarium, a park, or perhaps another city or state? Talk about the visit.
- What sports or games do you enjoy playing?
- If you could buy anything you wanted on a shopping trip, what would you buy?
After each conversation, quickly record 1 or 2 statements that the child made. Then invite the next child to speak.
After all children have spoken, tell children that it is time for the remembering portion of the activity.
Select 2 or 3 children, and ask them to stand up next to you. Then ask the group a multiple-choice question based on your notes of the conversations with these children. For example, ask: “Who has a dog that is bigger than they are? Is it Mary, Aiden, or Fiona?”
Alternatively, ask each child to state a fact or detail that they remember from 1 of the speeches. Then discuss why this detail is memorable.
Wrap up the session with a whole-group discussion about the activity. Say:
- We practiced 3 skills today: speaking, listening, and remembering. Which do you think is the most difficult of the 3 skills? Why is that? (Possible answer: Listening is the most difficult. It takes special effort to be a good listener.)
- Why do you think these 3 skills are important?

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Have children form pairs to speak and listen to one another. Then have the pairs join together to form groups of 4 or 6, and then join together again to form 2 or more large groups, and then finally the whole group.

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Speak and Listen (Grades K-2)

Speak and Listen (Grades K-2)

Speak and Listen (Grades K-2)

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