Ages 5-12
Guided Listening
Lisa Donohue
This comprehensive guide offers a framework for using reading aloud and other oral language experiences to build reading comprehension skills and help students record, share, value, and interpret ideas. These organisational tools free students to listen more attentively; organize their responses; and watch for subtle clues, such as body language, that are an important part of listening. The book is organized around common reading strategies, including making inferences and predictions, making connections, visualising, asking questions, and synthesising. Tools to complement these strategies include reproducible graphic organizers, rubrics, forms for recording student progress, and numerous worksheets.
Effective listening skills are essential for successful social interaction at home, at school, and in the community. Guided Listening illustrates how teachers can champion purposeful listening and help students better understand their language strengths and needs. It offers a practical framework that shows the value of recording and sharing the ideas of others; provides opportunities to identify the norms and conventions associated with oral language; and frees students to listen more attentively, organize their responses, and watch for the subtle cues that are an important part of listening.
The strategies in this practical book involve students in:
- analyzing and synthesizing information;
- making inferences and predictions while listening;
- transferring these skills to their independent reading and learning.
Tools that complement the strategies include reproducible graphic organizers, rubrics, forms for recording student progress, and numerous worksheets. Suggestions for choosing guided listening texts and a comprehensive approach to assessment complete this valuable resource.
Contents
Introduction; What is Guided Listening?; Why Guided Listening?; Listening Strategies Become Reading Strategies; The Mechanics of Guided Listening; Making Inferences and Predictions; Determining Important Ideas; Making Connections; Visualizing; Asking Questions; Synthesizing; Integrated Metacognition; Assessment; References; Index
2007 160pp paperback
978-1551382-19-7
£24.99
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