B. Apply strategies of a skillful listener

1. establish purpose
2. focus on the listening task
3. ask appropriate questions to gain and clarify information
4. interpret verbal and nonverbal communications
5. self-monitor listening techniques

Reading Groups
Students listen to stories and then form groups to answer questions about the content of the story.

ARTSEDGE: A Listening Doll
Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening to stories.  Then they create a listening doll in the tradition of the Native American storyteller dolls.

Listening to Gather Evidence in a Reading Selection
Students will listen effectively to obtain evidence to support decisions when making judgments.

Developing Listening Skills with Folktales
Students use their listening skills to answer questions about a passage of literature that has been read aloud to them.
 

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Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Answer simple factual questions about a presentation and represent nonverbally (i.e. gestures, pictures, graphic organizers) or with simple spoken words or phrases.
E/B: Identify the emotion conveyed by the speaker and express with simple spoken words, phrases or sentences.
D: Identify a newscast or article that has impacted opinion of a familiar issue; E: Identify the role the media play in forming audiences' opinions.
D: Recite simple poems; E: Recite brief poems and most dramatic dialogues.
E/B: Prepare and deliver simple narratives that follow a model provided by the teacher and express with simple spoken words, phrases, or sentences with assistance; D: Deliver simple narrative and informative presentations and express with simple, detailed sentences; E: Deliver simple oral responses to literature, as well as narrative and informative presentations.
E/B: Identify the main idea conveyed by the speaker and express with simple spoken sentences; D: Draw conclusions based on the general content and delivery of an oral presentation; E: Draw conclusions and some inferences based on an oral report from a speaker.
E/B: Prepare an oral presentation with a main idea. Use gestures, pictures, tables, graphs, or charts, as well as simple spoken sentences, in the presentation; D: Prepare and deliver and oral presentation with a main idea and use volume and gestures to support the message and express with simple, detailed sentences; E: Prepare and deliver an organized oral presentation with a main idea and use volume, timing, and gestures to support message.
 

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