Listening Skills Lesson Plans

Second graders improve their listening skills. In this mini-unit on being a good listener, 2nd graders complete three different activities that require them to follow directions and listen carefully. This lesson will require the use of a tape recorder.

Students answer questions about a folktale that is read to them. In this listening skills lesson plan, 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.

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.

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.  For this caring sharing lesson, students read The Biggest Pumpkin Ever and role play the conflicts in the book.  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 examine the importance of listening when conducting an interview. They develop a KWL chart about listening skills, listen to an interview and circle inconsistencies in the written account of the interview, and conduct a personal interview.

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

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

Learners 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.