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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: A Listening Doll

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students explore the tradition of Pueblo "Listening dolls" and create their own version of this historical tradition. Also contains a rubric, extensions, and books to use as references.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Listening

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Listening to Others

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Show others that you are a good listener by looking at him or her, listening and not interrupting, asking questions, nodding to show you understand, and repeating what you heard. This website will not only help you become a better...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Stages of Listening

For Students 9th - 10th
This instructional activity focuses on the five stages of listening: receiving stage, understanding stage, evaluating, stage, responding stage and remembering stage.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Enhancing Your Listening

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication learners will learn the importance of being an active listener who can resist distractions and keep an open mind while suspending judgment and exercising empathy. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation, SL.9-10.3...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Enhancing Your Listening

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on ways to improve your listening skills including resisting distractions and listening actively, suspending judgment, and exercising empathy. It also provides tips for being a more open-minded listener.
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Other

Morningside Center: Active Listening

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this lesson.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Barriers to Listening

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Simple Book Report With Your Listening Center

For Teachers 1st
You probably have a listening center in your room. This lesson shows your students how to describe the characters and setting in a story after they've listened to the story on tape.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Listening to Others

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Show others that you are a good listener by looking a him or her, listening and not interrupting, asking questions, nodding to show you understand, and repeating what you heard. The Spanish version of this website will not only help you...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will partner read The Kite, by Alma Flor Ada. Then work together in small collaborative groups to describe the character of the mother, the children, or the kitten. Included in this lesson are video demonstrations, printable...
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Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Twizzle Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars must use their listening and exercise skills to win this game! Students listen for commands from their teacher such as jump, turn, freeze, go, and twizzle. As they hear them, they must perform them quickly and properly...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Listen to and Follow Directions: Day 2

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
One important aspect of the common core is to prepare students to be able to participate in conversations and contribute accurate and relevant information. In this lesson, students listening skills will evolve as they translate verbal...
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Smithsonian Institution

Environmental Research Center: Forces of Change: Listening to the Prairie

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A large collection of lessons on prairie agriculture for Pre-K to Grade 12, organized into grade level groups. They cover such topics as foods that come from agriculture, animal farming, soils, and environmental issues. These lessons on...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Character Education Read Alouds

For Teachers K Standards
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will determine the "big...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The viewing goals for this lesson were for students to use a visual text, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech (played first without sound), to identify visual cues & understand why he may have chosen to use certain...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guess What's in the Bag a Language Based Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Students try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening, and Writing Comparing Sentences

For Teachers 1st Standards
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.
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TES Global

Tes: Schemes of Work: Speaking and Listening

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of lessons will engage students in analyzing the pros and cons of hunting. Students will also develop their own persuasive speeches about corporal punishment.
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Success Link

Success Link: Inside Outside Show and Tell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A different take on Show and Tell that emphasizes speaking and listening skills and will engage all the young scholars in this kindergarten tradition.

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