Conversation Starters Speech Therapy ELEMENTARY Printable and Digital Ice Breakers
$5.00
Conversation prompts or ice breakers to use with your students with autism, in speech therapy, or the classroom! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions.
Description
Conversation starters for kids! Are you an SLP or educator on the lookout for engaging ice breaker activities to use with your elementary students? These conversation starters or ice breakers are perfect for autistic students, in speech therapy, or in the classroom! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Use in speech teletherapy!
The conversation starters are perfect for your back to school speech therapy lessons and social skills groups!
This comprehensive ice breaker set is perfectly tailored for students, ensuring that the topics are age-related and relevant. These conversation starters are great whether you’re leading a social skills group or conducting individual sessions.
Utilize these versatile conversation starters to target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, sentence formulation, and more.
Use the ice breakers at the beginning of the school year or incorporate them throughout the year to get to know your students and work on critical language skills.
✅ WHAT’S INCLUDED (color and black & white included):
100 CONVERSATION PROMPTS
- There are 5 different category topics that are labeled and color-coded: about me, family & friends, school, social, would you rather.
- A blank page is included – create your own or have your students come up with questions for each other!
- I recommend printing, folding the paper in half, trimming any excess margins you don’t want, laminating, then hole punching one side and inserting a binder ring.
QUICK REFERENCE QUESTION PAGES
- A condensed version of all 100 questions
WRITE YOUR ANSWER
- A printable page to give a student to write their answers instead of giving verbal answers.
REINFORCER
- A reinforcer page is included to engage students. After answering a question, they can use a dot marker or bingo chip to fill a white circle. Black and white option included for ink saving option or as a coloring page!
NO PRINT VERSION
- Use on your computer or tablet as a no prep and no print option! This product has touch sections as well as drawing capabilities. Navigate the document with the “home” button and arrows found on each page.
- One question appears on each page. There is a space included to write an answer if desired.
- Another option is to print these slides to have bigger question pages for your students. Print in grayscale and print multiple pages to a page to make the slides smaller.
Perfect ice breakers for both in-person and teletherapy settings, this resource offers versatility and ease of use, allowing SLPs to adapt the activity to the needs of their students!
These beginning of the year conversation starters activities allow you to connect with your students in ways that will set a tone for a year filled with meaningful progress through your speech therapy sessions!
SLPS AND EDUCATORS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Great resource to get kids talking, brainstorming information. Can be used for articulation to raise awareness and practice sounds at conversational level. Also great for language skills, conversational skills (turn-taking, on-topic, etc).”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Great resource that my kids enjoyed working with, no prep and something you can grab quickly to use. So many conversation prompts to choose from.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I love the variety of conversational topics so that I can use them with various grade levels and abilities. It is helpful that they are separated by different category topics, as well.”
⭐ RELATED PRODUCTS ⭐
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Kala H. –
I have used this resource to work with students working on articulation in conversation and fluency strategies in conversation. It is so hard to come up with conversation starters without repeating the same conversations on a weekly basis.
Cheyenne F. –
This resource was great for conversation in speech! I had been looking everywhere for good questions for conversation and these were exactly what I needed!
Hey Teacher April –
This is a good starter for therapy. It got my students warmed up and ready to participate in language therapy.
April S. –
I always need new topics for conversation, so this was a great addition to my collection
Jill J. –
This was very useful to have conversations with my students…whether working on conversation skills or articulation carry-over in conversation.
Tracey N. –
Good resource
Cassandra W. –
Great resource to get kids talking, brainstorming information. Can be used for articulation to raise awareness and practice sounds at conversational level. Also great for language skills, conversational skills (turn-taking, on-topic, etc).
Sherly K. –
Grateful for this resource!! Thank you!
jobeth bocock –
Very helpful during the transition to tele therapy. Great resource for social skills and turn taking
Ashley J. –
This resource has been very helpful during the transition to distance learning! I love that I’ll be able to use this when I return to face to face therapy.
Lucy G. –
My high-functioning student with autism was so engaged with these conversation starters! Thank you thank you!!
Sandy M. –
My students loved working on their language skills using this product. It also allowed me to listen to speech sounds in conversation.
L M –
I have used this product across several of my students during distance learning. Very useful.
Jenna S. –
Great collection of conversation starters. These were great suggestions for families for ways to practice social language and conversation skills.
Teresa S. –
Fantastic! Easy to use and such great quality! Thanks!
Marissa B. –
I used this with my 3/4 and 5/6 self contained classes during distance learning. I would assign them each week and encourage parents to use at home as well. They were very useful for practicing language and social skills.
Jennifer P. –
I do like the variety of conversation starters, but ended up using another resource more that has not just starters, but possible questions students could ask each other related to the topic.
Long Pui Abi C. –
I struggled to come up with conversation starters for some of my older students and this is just so handy to own. It’s also categorised into various groups so my students could pick what felt like discussing on the day. Excellent resource!
Diane H. –
Thank you so much! Always looking for something I can use with my virtual students.
Erin K. –
Love it!
Teri S. –
I love the variety of conversational topics so that I can use them with various grade levels and abilities. It is helpful that they are separated by different category topics, as well.
Kelly N. –
These are great questions! I love that they’re categorized.
Bronwyn M. –
An engaging and fun resource for a quick activity during therapy. Thankyou!
Tonya S. –
I laminated these cards and created a writing prompt task box for students.
Heather W. –
Great Resource!
Ashley S. –
My students loved using this resource! It was an excellent way for them to practice their social skills.
ChathamSpecEdTeacher C. –
Great resource.
Whole and Healthy Teaching –
Great conversation starters and social skill practice!
Cara S. –
Great resource that my kids enjoyed working with, no prep and something you can grab quickly to use. So many conversation prompts to choose from.
Staci I. –
Using this for small groups. The kids love this activity. Thank you for creating this resource!
Tara S. –
These have been a great addition to my social skills groups. We use them to work on conversational turn-taking, continuing a conversation, etc.
Mindy D. –
I loved using this in my class! The students loved it!!