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Media Center Holdings- with Call Number and Librarian Notes
01 Apr 2011 12:44 PM
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Title Author
Call Number
Resource Type: Books
Reasoning and Problem Solving (Spotlight on
Listening Comprehension)
LoGiudice, Carolyn / Johnson, Paul F. 514 .174 LOG
Listening is a skill that requires the student to actively process information he hears, remember it, and formulate a
response if asked a question.
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:
First, students learn and practice a target skill by obtaining visual information from illustrations to facilitate
comprehension.
Visual clues fade to focus on active listening and thinking about what is heard.
The amount of information or listening load increases gradually.
The tasks that tap reasoning and problem solving include:
Associations Naming Categories
Exclusion Naming Objects from Descriptions
Comparing Contrasting
True/False Fact vs. Opinion
Cause and Effect Making Predictions
Predicting and Preventing Problems Asking Questions About Situations
Speaker’s Purpose Role-Playing
Using Imagination Supporting or Rejecting Opinions
Problem Solving
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 reasoning and
problem solving. The activities strengthen oral expression by asking students to explain the rationale or clues they
used to determine their answers.
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
answer reasoning and problem-solving questions
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