Unit 2 Overview
This unit helps children realise how the way they engage in social chat impacts the feelings of the people they are chatting with. The main type of ‘problematic chatting behaviour’ focussed on is going completely off topic. While introducing this, we make it clear that everyone makes chatting ‘slip-ups’ sometimes and we can ‘fix’ them; e.g., we can either apologise for being distracted or clarify why something made us think of the thing we said.
Unit 2 Overarching Plan: This page (see also the downloadable version) gives an overview of the whole unit, and we recommend you look through this before accessing the individual resources.
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Learning Objectives
Overarching Learning Objective: To understand how your chat makes your partner feel.
Learning Objectives
- Understand that chatting responses need to connect to what the chatting partners say.
- Practise keeping the chat going by using Connecting Statements (and questions).
- Practise listening and responding to what the chatting partners says.
- Understand that ‘chatting slip-ups’ can be fixed and practice using Fix It phrases when needed.
- Feel more relaxed engaging in social chat.
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Learning Outcomes
All students can
- Understand the difference between a Connecting Statement and an Unconnected Statement.
- Feel more relaxed in a social chat environment.
Most students can
- Understand that using Unconnected Statements can make their chatting partner feel ignored or unimportant.
- Use Connecting Statements most of the time (at least when the interaction is slowed down e.g. in the form of the Train Game).
- Notice when others used Unconnected Statements (at least when the interaction is slowed down e.g. in the form of the Train Game).
Some students can
- Repair some ‘Chatting Slip-ups’ (e.g. by apologising and saying they were distracted/giving a reason).