Transcript Listening Comprehension Instruction

Listening Comprehension
Instruction
North Dakota Kindergarten
Teacher Reading Academy
What is Listening Comprehension?
An understanding of stories and other
texts that are read aloud to them
 It lays the foundation for children to later
be able to “understand what they read,
remember what they read, and
communicate with others what they
read.”
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National Institute for Literacy, 2001, p. 48
Listening Comprehension…
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…is enhanced as kindergarten children
listen to stories that are read aloud,
participate in discussions of stories, and
engage in other literacy –related
activities.
When we read aloud, encourage
children to…..
Make predictions
 Answer questions about the book’s
content
 Read and talk along
 Share their own interests related to the
book’s content
 Ask questions of you and their peers
 Reenact or retell the story
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How We Learn…
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10% of what we READ
20% of what we HEAR
30% of what we SEE
50% of what we SEE and HEAR
70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS
80% of what is EXPERIENCED
PERSONALLY
 95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE
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William Glasser
Comprehension instruction can
include showing children how to…
Monitor their comprehension
 Summarize
 Recognize story structure
 Use graphic organizers
 Answer and generate questions
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We model what good readers do by
thinking aloud
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Demonstrate:
How you picture in your mind what is
happening in a story or book
 How you reread certain parts
 How you stop and summarize what has
happened
 How you regularly make predictions
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Reading Aloud Different Types of
Texts
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Narratives
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Tell a story using a
familiar story
structure that
includes a
beginning, middle,
and end
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Expository (or
informational) text
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Tells about one or
more topics in
different and varied
ways
Reading narrative and expository
texts aloud to children helps them:
Make connections to real life
experiences and build background
knowledge
 Increase their vocabulary and
understand different types of books
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Graphic Organizers
Can guide children’s thinking and help
them remember important elements and
information in both narrative and
expository texts
 Can be used before, during and after
reading
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Effective Questioning
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Gives children a purpose for listening and
reading
Focuses children’s attention on a topic and
what is to be learned about the topic
Helps children think about what they hear read
aloud
Encourages children to be aware of what they
do and do not understand
Helps children to relate the content of what
they are learning to what they already know.
Scaffolding: Using Different Types
of Questions
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Literal Questions
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Encourage children
to become aware of
the information in
the text
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Open-ended
Questions
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Encourage children
to extend their
thinking about the
text and to use
more elaborated
language as they
discuss the text
Kindergarten Strategies
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Preview and Predict
Use illustrations (picture walk)
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Use text features to predict
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If You Could Go To Antarctica
Visualize and predict
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My Lucky Day
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop
Recognize text structure
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Building Beavers
Ten Core Comprehension Skills
at Each Grade
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Character
Setting
Sequence
Classify and
Categorize
Compare and
Contrast
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Main Idea
Realism and Fantasy
Plot
Cause and Effect
Draw Conclusions
Asking Questions Along the
Continuum
Write several questions to ask before
reading and several questions to ask
after reading
 Use handout “Developing Questions to
Enhance Listening Comprehension”
 At your table, role-play a read aloud
session
 Use the handout “Asking Effective
Questions”
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