Provide regular opportunities and appropriate structures for children to listen to adults and peers.

Model, teach and have children practice strategies for critical and reponsive listening.

Use appropriate strategies for speaking to facilitate critical and responsive listening.

• Model, teach and have children practice strategies for critical and reponsive listening.

• Model with children various strategies for responsive and critical listening (e.g.,   looking at the speaker; modeling how to ask a question about what was heard; creating mental imagery; paying attention to the speaker’s intonation and facial expressions)

• Activate prior knowledge, (e.g. relate to children’s personal experiences; work in groups, share family stories)

• Engage children in listening to speakers, stories read aloud, class discussion

• Establish a purpose for listening (e.g., to follow directions, to name characters, to describe actions, to focus on and identify the main idea, for information, etc.)

• Model with children various strategies for responsive listening  e.g. looking at the speaker; modeling how to ask a question about what was heard; create mental imagery; attend to and analyze what is heard; paying attention to the speaker’s intonation and tones, facial expressions, multiple meanings of words and phrases; taking notes; listening for big ideas

• Establish a purpose for listening (e.g., to follow directions, to name characters, to describe actions, to focus on and identify the main idea, for information, etc.)

• Activate prior knowledge, (e.g. relate to children’s personal experiences; work in groups, share family stories)

• Engage children in listening to speakers, stories read aloud, class discussion, notetaking

• Model with children various strategies for critical listening (e.g., establishing a purpose for listening;  looking at the speaker; modeling how to ask a question about what was heard; create mental imagery; activate prior knowledge; attend to and analyze what is heard; paying attention to the speaker’s intonation and tones,  facial expressions, multiple meanings of words and phrases; taking notes; listening for big ideas)