Your learners talk to each other every day, but are they really listening? Use a lesson based on listening skills to ensure that class members feel heard and respected. It includes games, discussion topics, and self-assessment tools that ask individuals to think about the ways they listen to their friends.

Concepts

active listening, listening, friendship

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use for a peer-counseling class, or when establishing a classroom community early in the year
• Practice these skills before a project that ends in a class presentation or speech
• A good addition to an ESL class, in which learners are working on conversational vocabulary

Classroom Considerations

• Provides a competition activity similar to the game Telephone, but you could exclude the activity if you wanted to focus on conversation skills

Pros

• Emphasizes listening skills when talking to peers, building friendship and empathy
• Provides a rubric for participants to assess their own listening skills
• Comes with sample discussion topics for each grade level

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.3.1.a SL.4.1.a SL.5.1.a SL.6.1.a SL.7.1.a SL.8.1.a