Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Becoming a Critical Listener (English Iii Listening)
Learning to listen critically and extract the essence of a presentation will prepare you for college or a job. In this lesson, you'll learn and practice how to become a critical listener.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Listening
This instructional activity focuses on understanding listening including defining active listening, the five stages of the listening process, listening and critical thinking, and the four main barriers to effective listening.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity
Lesson which requires students to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Learning How to Listen and Take Effective Notes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to listen effectively, take good notes, and ask critical questions.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Listening to Others and Building on Arguments
This resource explains how to listen carefully to someone to identify the points they are trying to make and how to use those points to add additional information to the discussion. Includes sentence starters to help frame what you want...
Other
Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons to Encourage Critical Thought
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include Corduroy, "The Pledge of Allegiance," "What...
Other
Critical Thinking Community: Teaching Tactics That Encourage Active Learning
Eleven great ideas for teachers to engage their students in active learning and listening.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The History Behind Song Lyrics
Critical listening, research and historical information are all part of the material in this multi-disciplinary lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Penguin Tale or Tail?
This interdisciplinary approach to science, language arts and technology will guide students into a study of real information about penguins and their habitat. They will learn to identify homophones and share what they learn using...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communication: What You Can Accomplish With Public Speaking
This lesson plan lists and discusses the benefits of public speaking including personal satisfaction, critical thinking, career advancement, social connections, and influence the world around you.
Other
Life Long Earning: Communication Skills
Brief definitions of communication skills terms along with examples of how a student might combine these skills into projects and real-world applications.
Other
Aesop's Fables: Online Collection
In addition to providing full texts of over 600 fables by various authors, this website is a complete source for biographical, historical, and critical information. Many fables include Real Audio narrations so you can listen while you...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Lafs.8.sl.1.3
Choose from among lesson plans, assessments, and original student tutorials to teach how to analyze a speaker's arguments.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A 40 Year Plan for Energy
In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by business for profit. The key is integrating all four...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Detective Elmo: The Cookie Case
Critical thinking is the spotlight here as you help Detective Elmo save Cookie Monster and crack the cookie case!
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Marvin K. Mooney Activity
In this activity, students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now, by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Choose Your Attitude
This lesson engages students in determining the importance of attitudes on many facets of life. Students will view movie clips, view PowerPoint presentations, discuss how attitudes can change and influence people's lives, and look at...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness
Learn how to be a fair person. This website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it means to be fair.
Other
Manner of Speaking: Analyses of Speeches
This is a collection of videos of speeches by well-known personalities and celebrities. Each one is accompanied by an analysis of the speech's structure, devices, and arguments. Some videos are excerpts from movies, some are from...
Other
How to Analyze a Speech
An interesting approach to how to analyze a speech. Presents a rhetorical pentangle as well as a rhetorical triangle, where each of the vertices represents an item to analyze. There is also an outline of the different areas to examine in...
Other
Art Criticism: Four Stages of the Critical Process
Provides a brief description of each stage of art criticism using music as an example: description, analysis, interpretation, and judgement.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 16: Barriers in Communications
From Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall,' humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Examples of real walls in history have been the...
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Gcse Music
GCSE Music provides links to a variety of music topics including composers, composing music, music theory, music technology, performing and evaluating music, music styles, world music, and traditional music from the UK.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead...