💬Conversation is a skill that can be taught in small, visible steps, and these cards break it down so students can see what comes next. The same 16 friendly topics carry students from yes/no answers all the way to asking follow-up questions.
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These Conversation Cards with Visual Scripts help K–8 students practice back-and-forth conversation with clear visual supports. Built for speech therapy, social skills groups, pragmatic language work, special education and AAC users, the 54-page black and white PDF breaks a conversation into steps a student can see and rehearse.
Four progressive levels use the same 16 topics, such as dogs, pizza, music, drawing, summer, books, school and ice cream. Because the topics stay familiar, each new level adds a single conversational demand rather than new content. Level 1 starts with picture-supported yes/no questions and visual answer choices.
Level 2 moves to who, what, where and when questions with sentence starters. Level 3, Topic Talk, offers four questions per topic plus word support strips. Level 4, Keep It Going, practices the moves that keep a conversation alive: asking it back, making a comment and asking a follow-up question. Blank cards at every level let you add a student's own interests.
Foundation pages include a conversation map poster, greeting and introduction cards, feelings cards for answering "How are you?" and a My Introduction page. A Who Likes It? survey, two self-check forms and a conversation data tracker support progress monitoring, and a family letter connects practice to home.
An eight-week lesson plan, teacher guide, prompt hierarchy and IEP goal ideas help SLPs and special educators plan sessions for individual students or small groups.
📖 Teaching guide · 11 min readTeaching Back-and-Forth Conversation with Visual Supports: A Level-by-Level Guide for SLPs and Special EducatorsRead the guide →Keeping the same 16 topics across all four levels means students build one conversation skill at a time on familiar ground. The visual supports, prompt hierarchy and data tracker let you fade help gradually and see where each student is.
Students in kindergarten through 8th grade in speech therapy, social skills groups, special education, autism support and AAC settings.
Level 1 is yes/no questions with visual answer choices, Level 2 is WH questions with sentence starters, Level 3 is Topic Talk with four questions per topic, and Level 4 is Keep It Going, which practices asking it back, commenting and asking follow-up questions.
Yes. Each level includes 2 blank custom cards you can fill in with topics that matter to your students.
A conversation data tracker, two self-check forms and a Who Likes It? survey are included, along with a prompt hierarchy and IEP goal ideas to help you plan.
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