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Teach Students to Listen for Key Phrases

Tags

ELA: ^Other Social-Emotional Learning ^21st Century Skills K-8 Strategy

Skills

Auditory Processing Listening Comprehension Organization Working Memory Social Awareness Attention Verbal Memory

Teach Students to Listen for Key Phrases

Help students improve their listening skills by teaching them trigger words that signal important information is coming next.

How To Apply It!

  1. Help students learn to listen for the most important information by teaching them common phrases that teacher use to signal.
  2. "First," signals that step-by-step instructions, or a sequence of main points, are coming up. Listen for, "Second," "Third," etc. as well.
  3. "In summary," is a clue that a wrap-up of the main points will follow.
  4. "Now," signals it is time to sit up and pay close attention to what is about to happen.
  5. Help children learn to recognize change in a speaker's tone, or a pause in speaking. Often these changes signal that something important or different is happening.
  6. Print VIP's (Very Important Points) and add more phrases depending on the child's specific interests (e.g. "batter up" if your child plays baseball).

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Learning and listening for specific key words is especially important for students with attention or auditory processing issues who lose focus more easily or have a harder time processing auditory information as it comes in. These key words serve as cues so students when it is most important to be listening.