Lesson Listening
Lesson Listening
Lesson Listening
Communication Skills
Focus: listening
June. 7, 2020
Time Learning Expectations and Strategies Resources/Modifications/Evaluation
9:00-10:15 Material: 2 Mr. Potato Heads; 1 writing office;
GCO 1: Students will speak and listen to explore, extend and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings and visual of whole body listening; Auditory
Literacy experiences. Processing 2 steps cards.
SCO 1.4: listen to ideas and opinions of others
Read aloud GCO 2: Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond Accommodations/Modifications: one-one explicate
personally and critically instruction and modeling, extra work home
Shared
SCO 2.1: participate in conversations in small group and whole group discussions
reading
SCO 2.3: respond to and give simple instructions and directions Formative Assessment: observations, anecdotal
Guided records, rubric, conversations, group/self-
reading Have Student A come to meeting table. We have been working on whole-body listening as a class but assessment, thumbs up/down, conference, dry
Independent Student A struggles with oral language and communication skills so we will be working on listening and erase board, think pair share, exit/entrance
reading following directions one-one and then practicing during purposeful play in a small group. slips,3-2-1 Opinion, student KWL chart,
Modelled
(2.3) Show student anchor chart of whole-body listening. Review the chart and have the student explain it to
brainstorming web, journal
writing you. Tell the student that today we will be working on following directions. To follow directions, you need to do
Summative: Test/Quiz, project presentation
Shared whole-body listening. Show the student the Mr. Potato Heads and ask him if he knows what they are. Explain
writing to the student how you can put the parts in the potato. Allow the student a few minutes to explore Mr. Potato
Learning Styles: visual, kinesthetic, musical,
Independent head. Then tell the student that you are going to put a divider between you and the student so we can’t see auditory, logical, introvert, extravert
each other’s Potato Heads. We each get a Mr. Potato head with the same parts. I am going to tell you where
writing
to put the parts, but you cannot peak at my Mr. Potato Head. You need to really listen and follow directions.
Word work We want to see if they look the same at the end. Direct the student to put different parts in different locations.
Oral Start with one direct at a time. If the student does this easily, for the second round say two directions at a
language time. Third, have the student be the teacher and give directions Praise the student for good listening using
Integrated specific language like, you did a great job looking at me when I was speaking.
(2.3) Do 5 of the “Auditory Processing 2 Step Cards”
(1.4; 2.1; 2.3) Again, review good listening skills. Ask student where in the class they can practice (circle time,
at table before starting an activity, in the block center, in the kitchen center). Praise again. Student can join
others for purposeful play, remind to use listening skills. Go and observe student playing with peers and if
using listening/communication skills.
Send home listening work sheet and the full body-listening poster.