Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.4A Grade 8 CPI 1

 

Standard: 3.4 - Listening

 

Strand: A - Active Listening

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will demonstrate active listening behaviors in a variety of situations (e.g., one-on-one, small group).

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students write open-ended stories. They take turns reading these aloud to the class. Students offer suitable story endings, indicating they have listened well.

 

·        After reading poetry by a number of popular poets, small groups of students prepare a three- to five-minute report on a favorite poet and present it to the class. Each group is responsible for developing four questions based on the report to be answered by classmates.

 

·        After a unit of study on the Holocaust, students participate as the audience for a question-and- answer session with an expert panel consisting of a rabbi, a concentration camp survivor or descendant, and the department chairperson of the local high school social studies department.