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Resource Type: Books
**Main Idea (Spotlight on Listening
Comprehension)
LoGiudice, Carolyn / Johnson, Paul F. 514 .171 LOG
This is an important, top-down, listener-based strategy that requires the listener to tap into his background
knowledge of the topic to understand and express the “big picture” of what he hears (The National Capital
Language Resource Center, 2003, 2004). The rich sequence of activities trains your students’ auditory and
language systems to attend, process, think, and respond with accuracy.
To help your students get meaning from a listening text, four principles are recommended by The National Capital
Language Resource Center (2003, 2004). These are incorporated in the Spotlight on Listening Comprehension
books:
identify the purpose for listening
attend to critical information and ignore less important information
use top-down and bottom-up strategies as appropriate to the task
monitor comprehension of the text throughout the listening task
Description
The content of the activities in this book reflects a wide variety of curricular areas as well as daily life experiences.
Vocabulary and sentence structure are controlled at an elementary grade level.
Begin by administering the Pretest. Administer the Posttest at the conclusion to get a measure of progress.
The activities are sequenced by complexity and include visual cues that are gradually faded:
First, students learn how to think about the main idea with pictures.
Then, students identify the topics of groups of pictures or words.
Finally, students listen for the topic and main idea of articles, fables, messages, and school passages.
The activities require minimal writing to complete, and feature fill-in-the blank or multiple-choice formats similar to
tests.
Repeat activities as often as needed to achieve mastery. The question-answering instruction encourages
students to attend to relevant information in order to answer questions accurately (Put Reading First, Center for
the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement [CIERA], 2001).
Students learn to scan for key information, visualize what they hear, and listen for the purpose of identifying the
main idea. The activities also strengthen oral expression by asking students to explain how main idea differs from
details, to identify and label main idea statements from detail statements, and to identify specific questions they
can ask themselves to determine the main idea.
A CD-ROM of activity pages is included so you can print student pages from your computer.
By the completion of this program, you will have significantly helped your students discern how to listen for and
express the main idea of what they hear.
Make Way for Ducklings
McCloskey, Robert
FIC .039 MCC
The busy Boston streets are too dangerous for eight little ducklings! But with a little help from a friendly policeman
Mrs. Mallard and her family arrive safely at their new home. The public garden was no place for ducklings when
they were first born, but now they are old enough to brave the raucous crowds and swim with the giant swan
boats.
There are actually 44 sounds in our (English) language, and this work incorporates all 44 in the text. Good for
beginning readers.
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