Language Arts Literacy

 

Mission: Learning to read, write, speak, listen, and view critically, strategically and creatively enables students to discover personal and shared meaning throughout their lives.

Standard 3.4 Listening

All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

 

Big Idea:  Listening is an active process to gain understanding.

3.4 A. Active Listening

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

-Can one hear but not listen? - Listening is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/nonverbal messages.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 1:  
1.      Listen and respond appropriately to directions  
2.      Listen to hear initial, final, and eventually middle sounds in words.  
3.      Listen to a familiar text being read to begin tracking print.  
4.      Listen to a spoken word to produce another word that rhymes with it.  

3.4 B. Listening Comprehension

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- How does a listener understand a message? - Effective listeners are able to interpret and evaluate increasingly complex messages.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 1:  
1.      Listen to make predictions about stories read aloud.  
2.      Follow simple oral directions.  
3.      Recall information from listening to stories, poems, television and film.  
4.      Retell, reenact, or dramatize stories or parts of stories heard.  
5.      Respond appropriately to questions about stories read aloud.  
6.      Begin to track print when listening to a familiar text being read or when rereading their own writing.  
7.      Ask questions for clarification and explanation of stories and ideas heard.  
4.         Listen and respond appropriately to a debate.  

 

 

 

 

 

Link to Standard 3.4 Grade K

 

Link to Standard 3.4 Grade 2

 

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