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.

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

• When talking or reading with children, enunciate clearly; be expressive; give children time to process; repeat and rephrase; pause to explain or clarify when needed

• Give prompts (e.g., when introducing a book or a speaker, tell children what to listen for; ask them to make predictions)

• When talking or reading with children, enunciate clearly; be expressive; give children time to process; repeat and rephrase; pause to explain or clarify when needed

• Give prompts (e.g., when introducing a book or a speaker, tell children what to listen for; ask them to make predictions).