100% Listening - Intermediate
Ages: 8-10 /
Grades: 3-5
Target classroom listening in fourteen skill areas. Ready-to-use lessons give students the extra practice they need to become purposeful listeners.
The 170 one-page lessons are sequenced to reflect general language and thinking development with some overlap of skills. The skill areas and some of the activities are:
Repetition —clapping patterns, words, numbers, proper nouns, sentences Answering Questions —yes/no and wh- questions, comparisons, opinions, problem solving, exclusionFollowing Directions —identify directions, draw items described, math problems, conditional directionsCategories —similarities/differences, categories and members of categories, exclude by attributeRiddles —clues move from the general to the specificAsking Questions for Comprehension —identify vague information, explain why directions are unclear, ask questions for clarificationParaphrasing —synonyms, identify important information, use words such as first and last Identifying Details —answer wh- and how questions, identify pronoun referents, fact vs. opinionMain Idea —identify the main idea from photos and text, identify irrelevant information Differentiating Speakers' Purposes —identify types of speakers, good listening skills, and distractionsGrammar —kinds of sentences, parts of a sentence, identify correct/incorrect grammar, combine sentencesInferences —listen for context clues, picture events in your mind, figures of speechExtending Conversations —expand utterances, listen and ask questions, paraphraseNonverbal Communication —posture, gesture, facial expression, intonation, word emphasis, personal space174pp.
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