Tone of Voice Is More Than the Words You Use

Today in our social skills class, we talked about tone of voice.  More specifically we talked about how tone can mean much more than the words we use.  We introduced this topic by showing this quick, one minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD7rVRlnrJI.  (Please note that you may want to stop the video at at :36 and resume at :40.  A quick preview may be a good idea to make sure this is something you would want to show…it only takes a minute!)

To put the idea to the test, we gave multiple one-word statements and asked the students to say them using one of five different tones.  The other students were asked to guess which tone was used, by showing a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 on their finger(s).  They loved this activity, so we thought we would share it with you!  Your Tone Of Voice Is More Than The Words You Use. Our next step is to discuss how others can have thoughts about us when we use a tone that does not match the words we chose.   We are going to introduce this idea with Winnie The Pooh: The “New” Eeyore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k_cVLHEIDI

We hope you find this activity useful!