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Grade 7, Reading and Language Arts Std #: 24 Refine general listening behaviors. Identifying main idea and summarizing Understanding contextual meaning or words used Listening for implications of significant details Understanding relationships among ideas Connecting spoken message to prior experiences

Lesson Plans: Life Saving Computing Listening Skills Mystery Pictures Following oral instructions Listening to History Investigating history Make Me a Copy Please: A Project in Explaining and Following Directions Being a more efficient listener

Resources: Effective Listening Skills Listening behaviors Using Storytelling to Assess Listening and Speaking Skills Rubrics for listening skills Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B, I) Students will follow a series of sequenced commands through total physical response exercises provided by the teacher. Students can repeat the commands to the other classmates for understanding. (T) Students listen to a brief clip from a news program and paraphrase the news item. (I, T) Students interview classmates to gather survey information. (I, T) Students work with a partner to read poetry aloud. Use Joyful Noise, Poems for Two Voices or I Am Phoenix, Poems for Two Voices, both by Paul Fleischman, if possible. See also a lesson for using Poems for Two Voices
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