Adolescent - Conversations (Book)

With Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent: Conversations, students practice the art of good conversation by taking turns speaking and listening, responding to conversation openers, handling shifts in topics, requesting clarification and repairing communication errors, and more.

Increase success in social communication with instruction that systematically targets specific skills and uses a variety of learning methods.

The activities teach explicit aspects of social skills in everyday contexts with these learning strategies:

• explicit instruction
• modeling
• observation
• discussion
• role-playing
• other guided practice

The activity pages are filled with graphic organizers and interesting photos. The lessons give students specific, clear directions that help them navigate their often confusing social world. The lessons can be presented to individual students or small groups of students. A pretest/posttest is included in each book.

• direct instruction
• modeling
• observation
• discussion
• role-playing
• other guided practice