1. Subject: Name of Intern:Ben Hammond
Duration: Life Skills Name of Classroom mentor:Donna
Lesson:How To maintain a conversation Spencer
SPU Coordinator:Karen Murphy
Today’s Date:5-1-12
EALR’s/GLE’s:
EALR: 1. The student uses listening and observation
skills and strategies to gain understanding.
Component: 1.1. Uses listening and observation skills and
strategies to focus attention and interpret
information.
Grade Level Expectation: 1.1.1. Understands how to adapt attentive behavior
to accommodate the listening situation.
IEP Goal(s)
When given problem-solving questions related to future job skills and daily living student will respond
using a complete sentence and correct vocabulary improving language understanding and expression,
from 1 of 5 opportunities to 3 of 5 opportunities as measured by Teacher/ SLP observation.
Learning Target(s) - (measurable): Materials:
Content: Orally or physically identify 1 way to Prezi, overhead projector, laptop, 2 or more
greet a person and 1 question you could ask to people
continue the conversation.
Communication Demands:verbal and physical
responses needed for independent practice,
handshake, .
Student Voice:what is happening, what will
happen, conversation, greet, ask a question,
Do you like the cold?
I do/do not like the cold.
Do you like the rain?
I do/do not like the rain.
Why do you like/not like the rain?
Do you like Sports?
Do you like football?
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2. Formative Assessment:Students will answer
questions from the Prezi while they watch.
Summative Assessment:Students will greet a
peer appropriately and ask them 1 question, 1
follow up question, and 1 on-topic comment.
Management Strategies:
Video, proximity, oral, visual, and physical cues
Instruction:
Anticipatory Set / Make Connection (learner’s strengths & interests)/ Modeling / Direct instruction and
Guided practice
Ant Set: To meet new friends, you need to know how to begin and maintain a
conversation. Last week we talked about how to begin a conversation and this week,
we will go over how to maintain a conversation.
“Who enjoys having conversations with friends and who would like to get better at
maintaining a conversation”?
Modeling& DI: We will watch an interactive presentation and learn how to appropriately
maintain a conversation.
1. We greet someone with Hi or Hello.CFU::What can we say when we greet
someone?
2. I will model students asking a question about a present situation, a past situation,
or an interest expressed previously, a follow up question to their answer, and a
comment.
CFU:: Do you like the rain?
CFU:: Why do you like the rain?
CFU:: I like the rain too.
Guided Practice: Students will film themselves greeting a peer, asking 2 follow up
questions and 1 comment each with the use of comment cards in small groups. Each
card will have written either who, what, where, when, why, or how. The students will
greet each other first with Hi or Hello, and one peer mentor will make a general
statement to initiate the task, and students will go around the group making a statement
to begin. The other students will pick a card to prompta question. After the initial and
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3. follow up questions, the students will make a comment such as “I like that too”, or “”I
also __”.
Conclusion: Students will orally evaluate the video of each other beginning and
maintaining conversations.
Closure (Student voice):
Students will give 1 way to greet someone and 1 question they can ask after the
greeting to continue a conversation.
Adaptations and Accommodations:
N/A
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