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Content Area: Language Arts Literacy
Index: 3.4A Grade 4 CPI 1
Standard: 3.4 - Listening
Strand: A - Active Listening
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will listen actively for a variety of purposes such as enjoyment and obtaining information.
Grade: 4
Sample Activities:
· Students listen to a story without seeing its illustrations. Then the students illustrate what they envisioned from the story. They compare their illustrations with the originals.
· The teacher spends five minutes daily reading a poem or a segment of a long narrative poem to the class as part of a unit on poetry. Students record the titles read in their reading journals, along with brief responses. At the end of the unit, students review their responses before engaging in a discussion of the experience. Poems might include Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”, Alfred Noyes’ “The Highwayman”, Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”, excerpts from Beowulf, sonnets by Shakespeare, Shel Silverstein’s poetry, and the poems of Langston Hughes.
· The teacher organizes and begins a listening game. She tells the students they must listen to and remember everything they hear. She tells the student she is going to demonstrate how to play and begins by introducing the formula, “I went to the store and bought one frog.” Then, she picks one student to continue the game by repeating exactly what she said and adding two of something (e.g., “I went to the store and bought one frog and two ducks.”). Each student, in turn, repeats the phrase and adds to the growing list of items. If a student forgets the sequence, the next student starts the game over from the beginning. The game continues until each student has successfully completed his or her turn or until fatigue sets in.
Vignettes (PDF Format):
· From Research to Oral Production · Fables · Developing Critical Listening, Speaking, and Writing Skills through a Study of Endangered Animals · Developing Critical Reading and Notetaking Skills through Researching a Famous African American |
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