Conversational Skills

Participating in back-and-forth exchanges with appropriate turn-taking, topic maintenance, and repair.

Examples & Achievements

• Takes turns in conversation without interrupting (most of the time)
• Stays on topic for 3+ conversational turns
• Initiates conversations with peers and adults
• Asks relevant questions to continue a conversation
• Repairs communication breakdowns ("I mean...", "no, the other one")

How to Measure

• Maintains topic across 3+ conversational turns in a natural setting
• Initiates conversation with a peer at least once during free play (observed)
• Demonstrates conversational repair when misunderstood (observed)
• Teaching Strategies GOLD Objective 10 (conversation skills)