Listening Skills Lesson Plans

Students answer questions about a folktale that is read to them. In this listening skills lesson, students practice listening to folktales and answering questions about what they hear. They listen to repetitive readings of the same passage, take notes, and write answers to essay questions based on their notes.

In this lesson students practice their listening skills by determining which number is mentioned twice in a list read by the teacher. They work with the "th" letter and sound combination during phonics and hand writing instruction. In the text comprehension instruction they make puppets with facial expressions that depict feeling. Finally, they practice reciting the poem, "Washing" by John Drinkwater.

In this lesson students use their listening skills to answer questions about a passage of literature that has been read aloud to them. They then answer questions based on what they have heard.

Students develop good listening skills and are able to recall and predict what happens in a story.  In this caring sharing lesson, students read The Biggest Pumpkin Ever and role play the conflicts in the book.  In this lesson students bake pumpkin cookies.

Students hone their listening skills. They develop tools for approaching research into their own musical traditions and those of community and state and examine different ways of recording data. They design different types of research tools.

Students practice effective listening skills. In this character education lesson, students identify effective listening skills, such as giving eye contact. Students practice good listening skills in pairs and compliment each other on effective listening behavior.

In this lesson, Music Listening-What's The Sound, learners practice playing different instrument. In this lesson learners listen as the instruments are played to determine the sound of each instrument. In this lesson learners will match the instrument to the sound. This lesson increases learners listening skills.

Students develop their listening skills as they listen to the book The Perfect Pet. In this reading lesson, students listen to the book, and then talk about the pets they have. Then they make a graph as a class of all their pets.

This lesson has students investigate the art of storytelling and make Native American storytelling dolls. In this storytelling and Native American lesson, students discuss the art and purpose of storytelling. They examine listening skills and make clay listening dolls.

In this lesson students explore the Monarch butterfly. In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students fill out a KWL chart, develop understanding of related vocabulary and identify compound words. In this lesson students also use listening skills and record information in a journal.