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Resource Type: Books
**Details (Spotlight on Listening
Comprehension)
LoGiudice, Carolyn / Johnson, Paul F. 514 .173 LOG
Listening for details is a bottom-up strategy that requires the student to listen to the language in the text and sort
out details from other information (The National Capital Language Resource Center, 2003, 2004).
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 first activity is designed to clarify the skill and purpose of the listening activities. The following activities are
sequenced by complexity and involve detecting details that are directly stated, not implied.
First, students obtain visual information from pictures to facilitate comprehension.
Next, they solve riddles with and without picture clues.
Then, students take turns giving and following directions to complete worksheet tasks.
Then, they use the visual information in pictures to answer detail questions, gradually progressing to single
sentences without pictures.
Finally, they listen to short passages and answer several questions about the details within each passage.
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 recalling details.
The activities also 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 details are critical
to comprehending what they hear.
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