A. Use appropriate listening and speaking behaviors (AL COS 16)

1. show and interest in what others have to say
2. look at the speaker/audience
3. respond appropriately to material read, heard, or viewed
4. use grammar, expression, and word appropriate to audience
5. speak clearly and in complete sentences
6. generate appropriate questions
7. follow directions

Sharing Under the Sea
This lesson fosters communication, builds social skills, and stresses the use of polite manners.

Guess What's in the Bag:  A Language-Based Activity
Whole-class participation allows students to use their imagination and frees them to play with words as they describe hidden objects, hear clues, and tap prior knowledge.
 

Help Your Child Learn to Listen: A parent resource guide:  This site offers activities for parents to help their children become better listeners.

Fun activities to promote listening skills (Kindergarten to 1st grade):  This site offers games and activities to boost children's listening skills.

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

E/B: Understand and respond to one-step directions when supported visually and with high-frequency words; D: Understand and respond to one-to-two step directions when high-frequency words are expressed; E: Understand and respond to one-to-two step directions when high-frequency words are expressed.
E/B: Express thoughts pictorially or with nonverbal gestures or simple high-frequency words, spoken words or phrases; D: Express thoughts and opinions with clear words and phrases; E: Express thoughts and opinions with clear and nearly accurate words, phrases, and sentences.
E/B: Describe people, places, and things with simple words or phrases; D: Describe people, places, and things with words and phrases; E: Describe people, places, and things with words, phrases, and sentences.
E/B: Recite a simple poem or song; D: Recite short poems and songs; E: Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
E/B: Express stories sequentially using pictures, nonverbal gestures, or simple high-frequency words, spoken words or phrases; D: Express stories sequentially, using pictures, nonverbal gestures, and spoken words or phrases; E: Express stories sequentially using pictures and spoken words and phrases.
 

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