Training Program in Purposeful L istening For Early Childhood Teachers

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Listening to Learn

By the end of the session you willUnderstand the diverse purposes of listening.

Will experience model activities in purposeful listening to develop early literacy skills.

What do young learners listen to at school?

Early Literacy Skills

Phonological AwarenessFollowing directionsRhymesStories

Listening is the Cinderella skill of language, eclipsed by its sister skills of speaking, reading and writing (Nunan, 1997; Smith, 2003).

Listening is important

Main channel of classroom instruction

Key source of receiving new information

Basis for the acquisition of all subsequent forms of communication – speaking, reading and writing

Is there a difference between Listening and Hearing?

Yes, there is

How do we get the undivided attention of the learner?

L I S T E N I N G T O L E A R N – P A L L A V I N A I K

Young listeners are most successful when they listen with a purpose. Their purposes help listeners concentrate on the message, keeping their thoughts from wandering off.

Purposes! Purposes! and Purposes!

To enjoy language sounds

To predict To identify main

ideas To draw To compare and

contrast To categorize

To cite examples To narrate sequence

of the story To visualize

(meanings and feelings)

To judge characters To formulate

questions

Listening to follow directions

Pre listening – Recite the active listening chantTime for actionsTime for actionsTime for actions just nowTime to stretch stretch Time to hop hop Time to sit sit just now Time for actions….. While listening - the learners do the actions Post listening - the learners will add a set of new

actions

Listening to follow instructions: How to make a cupboard fold step by step

Pre listening: show the object and introduce vocabulary fold left to right, crease book fold unfold center doors.

While listening: The teacher will give the instructionsFirst: take a paper and fold from left to right, crease well and you get a book foldThen: unfold the paper Next: fold the right side to meet the crease in the centerLast: fold the left side to meet the crease in the center and you get a cupboard

with two doors.

Post listening: describe the process to your partner.

Listening to identify the S sound: The story of ‘S’ – CLAP CLAP

Listening to…

isolate identify Match categorize blend add and substitute Identify the missing sound

Drive a motor carDrive a motor carPomp, pomp, pompRide a bicycleRide a bicycleTring, tring, tringFly an aeroplaneFly an aeroplaneZoom, zoom, zoomComplete the poem….

L I S T E N I N G T O L E A R N – P A L L A V I N A I K

Listening to enjoy sound words

Rhyming - A B partner

One two buckle my shoeThree four shut the doorFive six pick up the sticksSeven eight lay them straight

Nine ten a big fat hen.

Listen to match and add

Rhyming Bingo – play the game

Stories are a rich source of….

Vocabulary New information Good sentence and story

grammar Stimulating imagination Increasing attention span Improving listening

comprehension

Listening to stories - Activity

You are going to listen

to your teacher read the info book Terrible Tigers. The specific purpose of listening to the narration is to ask questions to the characters in the story.

Pre listening – Ask the students what is one thing they would

like to know about their partner Help them to use the correct question word. Prepare a list of question words.While listening – Listen to the story and have stop and jot pointsPost listening – Do a whole class discussion of the answers.

When they listen to.. Music, rhymes and songs they listen

to…..

Stories, they listen to…..

Sounds, they listen to……

Instructions, they listen to ……

Lesson plan: My young learner’s listening inventory L I S T E N I N G T O L E A R N – P A L L A V I

N A I K

Chronologically children listen before they speak, speak before they read and read before they write.

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