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Chapter 7
Developing Listening Skills
2. Chapter Highlights
A. Types of Listening
B. Purposeful Listening Activities
C. Appreciative Listening Activities
D. Critical Listening Activities
E. Discriminative Listening Activities
F. Teacher Skills
G. Auditory Perception
H. Listening Centers
I. Phonological Awareness
1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Phonemic Awareness Activities
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3. Chapter Highlights (cont.)
Teacher Goals – Phonology
A. Emphasizes Sounds in Daily Interactions
1. rhyme sounds
2. notices beginning, middle, ending word sounds
3. segments syllables in a word
4. blends sounds into words.
B. Talks About Alphabet Letters
1. points out characteristics
2. labels letters while pointing
3. answers questions about letter sounds
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Objectives
In this chapter, we will investigate:
Five types of listening
Teaching techniques that promote good listening
habits
How to plan an activity that promotes a listening skill
Presenting a listening activity to a group of
preschoolers
How to tell a story that involves purposeful child
listening
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Listening and Hearing
Listening
The first language arts skill learned
Develops before the child can speak
A learned behavior, a mental process
Hearing
The facility or sense by which sound is
perceived
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Types of Listening
Appreciative: pleasure and entertainment
Purposeful: follows direction and replies
Discriminative: sound difference awareness
Creative: imagination and emotion
Critical: understands, evaluates, makes
decisions, and formulates opinions
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Language Features in Songs
Vocabulary
Predictability
Rhyming
Repetition
Concept development
Cultural literacy
Discriminative listening
Creative listening
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Critical Listening
Discussion of a problem
Discussion of likes and dislikes
Detection of errors
Predicting the feelings of others
Discovering inconsistencies
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Discriminative Listening
Discerning sounds that are same or different
Decoding in early reading
“Listening Detectives”
Imitating clapping patterns
Identifying rhymes
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Creative Listening
Activities that create emotional responses
Discussion of feelings about a read-aloud
Expression of feelings through art and drama
Encourage formation of mental images when
listening to music or stories
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Teaching Techniques that Promote
Good Listening Habits (1 of 3)
Awareness of teachers’ own listening habits
and abilities
Factors that may impact
Teacher’s own experience—effective examples
Teacher is so busy sharing knowledge
Teacher instructions clear and simple
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Teaching Techniques that Promote
Good Listening Habits (2 of 3)
Teachers promote good listening habits
Using body-movement activities to help
capture attention
Encouragement and smiles
By using statements at the beginning, middle,
and end of an activity to focus attention
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Teaching Techniques that Promote
Good Listening Habits (3 of 3)
Children will listen better if teachers:
Speak with natural volume
Focus child’s attention on speaker
Explain figures of speech
Check for understanding
Reduce classroom noise
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What Impacts Listening?
Auditory perception
Provide auditory activities
Prepare your setting for listening
Minimum distractions
Heating and lighting
Do not force
Teacher behaviors
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Planning an Activity
to Promote Listening Skills
Talk-listen group time
Goal: opportunity to participate
Children sit in circle facing the speaker
Teacher announces and names activity
Introduce chart depicting topics to discuss
Teacher models and activity begins
Have a group evaluation
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Music as a Listening Activity
The use of music promotes
Listening to sounds, words, pitch, tone
Singing, child responses, and silence
Cognitive abilities
Memorizing songs, poems
Auditory discrimination
Intellectual progressing
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Phonological Awareness
May predict a child’s future reading success
Developmental—develops in stages (Opitz)
Begins at age three and improves over many
years (Snow, Burns, Griffin)
Phonemic awareness
Alliteration
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Phonemic Awareness Skill
Phoneme segmentation
Skill allows the child to hear phoneme
segments in words
Hearing individual phonemes is not easy.
Continuant
Children hear and isolate letters
Needed to make connections
Single alphabet letters and sound
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Encourage Listening Activities
Plan and implement many listening activities
Author’s chair or child picture book sharing
Listening riddles for guessing
Listen and follow directions
Stories and games