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Telephone Skills
The challenge in telephone conversations is that speakers and listeners cannot rely on body language to communicate. This 31-page packet includes a curriculum guide, lesson plans, assessments, and resource lists designed to help...
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Yakety-Yak
Do talk back! The transcript of one side of a telephone conversation launches a study of dialogue. Class members imagine the response of the speaker on the other side of the conversation and record these responses on the provided...
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Telephoning Problems Challenge Board Game
For this communication worksheet, learners participate in a board game that involves twenty-seven steps of how to carry on a telephone conversation with another person.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Effective Telephone Communication
Students identify and incorporate how to use a telephone book, a calling card and analyze their telephone bill and pay their telephone bill while reviewing the vocabulary list on the board. In addition, basic utilities are covered in...
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Telephone Communication
Students role-play telephone conversations. They view a video of a telephone conversation and discuss the vocabulary used during the conversation. They practice conversations and substitute responses.
Conneticut Department of Education
Personal Finance Project Resource Book
Balancing a budget, paying taxes, and buying a home may feel out of reach for your high schoolers, but in their adult years they will thank you for the early tips. A set of five lessons integrates applicable money math...
Scholastic
Dear Miss Breed
This compelling plan based on the letters in the book Dear Miss Breed engages readers in learning what it was like for Japanese Americans following the attacks at Pearl Harbor. After reading the letters, young scholars will...
Northeast Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency
Who Were the Tired, the Poor, the Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free?
Elvira Woodruff's The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time Travel Adventure is the core text in a interdisciplinary unit study of immigration at the turn of the century.
Writing Educators Symposium
Asking the Right Questions
It can be difficult to find the theme of a book or story if you don't know the questions to ask. Teach your kids to discern the universal theme in works of literature with a set of activities that promote critical thinking and...
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ESOL: Effective Telephone Communication
Pupils study ways to communicate via a telephone. They discuss and define what an emergency is and how to use 911 for emergency situations. They role-play conversations subsituting various emergency situations and take turns playing each...
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Adult ESOL Lesson Plan - Effective Telephone Communication
Students examine and practice the ability to use basic residential telephones. They practice specific phrases and vocabulary terms to assist them with this task. In addition, they practice writing down each other's phone numbers.
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A Teeny Tiny Book: My Friends
For this mini book worksheet, students cut apart and complete a teeny tiny book with names of friends and their phone numbers.
Harper Collins
If You Give...Series Teaching Guide
If you give teachers a few good ideas, they can really bring a story to life. Included in this resource are dozens of activities to use as your class reads books in the If You Give... series. From holding puppet shows and creating...
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Module 14 Keeping In Touch
In this ESL worksheet, student match 8 names with the events/facts that they are associated with. They write 8 sentences about the facts or events using the present simple verb tense. They put given words in the correct order to make 7...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Telephone Communication
Students, after extensively reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, examine the form of communication that deals with all the aspects of a telephone: telephone bill, customer service, billing and disconnection/reconnecting fees.
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Alphabet Books
Students work with a partner from a different grade level to brainstorm, draft, edit, illustrate and publish alphabet-themed books. They take turns reading the books to each other and conference with a teacher to review their work.
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Let the Phone Get Them Talking! Using the Yellow Pages as a Teaching Resource
Students categorize information in the Yellow Pages. In this Let the Phone Book Get Them Talking! lesson, students find pictures in the Yellow Pages and thus gain a better understanding of how the book is organized. Students locate local...
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Yellow Pages Ad-dition
Students determine the revenue generated by sample pages from the Yellow Pages. They discuss the value of advertising a business in this venue. They use the local telephone directory and some fictitious ad rates to lead their inquiry.
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LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING
The student will recognize different information sources. 2. The student will use a telephone book as a resource for locating agricultural businesses
and people with agriculture-related jobs.Discuss the purpose of the phone book, and...
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Glossaries
Explore text structure with a focus on the glossary feature in informational texts. Learners read a brief introduction before examining a glossary from a text about plants. They reference it while completing four comprehension questions....
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Alphabetize For A Reason
Students organize information by using the alphabet. Students organize materials alphabetically. Students alphabetize with the first, second and third letters of a set of words. Students discover applications for alphabetical order.
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Conventions - Punctuation Research
Study unusual punctuation marks in this punctuation lesson plan. Young grammarians work in small groups to research one of the unusual punctuation marks (semi-colon, colon, dash, comma, ellipses, or quotation marks) and discuss how the...
Western Illinois University
Activities for Supporting Oral Language Development
Support young scholars' oral language development with the use of four early childhood activities. To reinforce proficiency, pupils read with an adult, play a game of telephone with their peers, put on a play with puppets or stuffed...
Ergonome
Preventing Computer Injury
Do your hands cramp up after a long day of typing? Learn the proper and ergonomic ways to type on a keyboard with a helpful "hand" book. From relaxing elbows and wrists to massaging and stretching tired hands, the strategies in the book...