Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Barriers to Effective Listening
Learn about the 7 barriers to effective listening and test yourself at the end. Of which barriers are you guilty?
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: General Listening Quiz: Enjoying the Zoo
Students listen to a recording about a visit to the zoo, then read and answer questions to check their oral comprehension. Includes followup ideas for discussion and research.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Listening to Others
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...
Starfall
Starfall: Dune Buggy
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling
In this lesson plan, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rumor Has It!
Lesson plan showing how rumors can get started. Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna is read and discussed. Students participate in game of relaying messages by whispering into the ear of the student next to them and seeing what the resulting...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address
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...
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing Two Cinderella Stories
Students will compare two characters and list their comparisons on a graphic organizer using modern Cinderella stories. This instructional activity includes a detailed lesson plan for guided practice and partner work, and a video of...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Unscramble
A game where students practice reading skills by listening to a sentence and then dropping words into the correct order to form that sentence. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Student Handbook: Listening Skills
This short list of listening strategies from the University of Minnesota Duluth is designed to help every student become a better listener.
Other
Channel 3000: Listening Skills Are Required to Work
Some tips are presented on the importance of being a good listener and how to be a better listener at work.
Defenders of Wildlife
Kids' Planet: Who Am I?
Being a good listener is the key to winning this interactive game. Click on the numbers and listen to the sounds. To win, you must identify the animal making the sound. Immediate feedback given.
Other
How to Study: Good Listening in Class
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Listening for Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has the students working on their listening skills with various activities as well as the alphabet cheer, a Big Book, and classifying people and animals.
Other
Listening Skills Self Evaluation
Listening is a skill that is often overlooked and it can have everything to do with how someone views you. This site provides an evaluation that allows the user to analyze their ability to listen in a thoughtfull manner. The evaluation...
Other
How to Study: Study Skills Topic Pages
Frustrated with study habits that don't work? Change your approach in a few easy steps.
Other
California Polytechnic State University: Listening Skill
This site from the California Polytechnic State University provides a concise and well done guide to listening that coveys what the instructor has to say, as well as the tasks of the listener. Good advice, easy to download as a one page...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Telephone Conversations
A social listening exercise designed for English language learners. The exercise requires students to listen to short audio clips of typical questions and remarks that they might hear on the telephone. Then learners choose an appropriate...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Introductions
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a social question and then select the appropriate response from the three given. Designed especially for English...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Telling Time
An exercise for English language learners that tests students' survival listening skills and their ability to comprehend common ways of expressing time. Can they hear the difference between 4:15 and 4:50? Do they know what twelve past...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Bus Travel
This exercise for English language learners tests students' survival listening skills and their ability to interpret bus schedules. Students listen to several audio clips then answer true/false questions about destinations, arrival and...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Directions Around Town 3
This true-or-false exercise for English language learners tests their map-reading and listening skills. Using a small street map for visual reference, students answer a series of true/false questions about locations on the map.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: General Listening Quiz: Restaurant Order
This social listening exercise designed for English language learners has students listen to audio clips of questions they might hear in a restaurant from a waiter or waitress. Then they choose the correct response.