This is a full lesson plan that gets your students listening to you read a story about a mysterious castle where people have begun to go missing. There are a total of 6 activities they will use along the way to get them distinguishing sounds and patterns. This method flips the process and helps them build their listening skills from the bottom-up.
The design of this listening comprehension lesson plan keeps students actively engaged in the nuances of the instruction. If you’re looking for a more impactful way to level up your ELL or ESL students’ listening skills, this resource is for you. Its great for primary and middle school students, speech therapy, attention training, daily auditory practice, or sub plans. The instruction requires no prior knowledge in bottom-up listening – its written in a way that you can easily follow.
Here is a quick look at what your students do with this listening lesson.
Your students…
- …distinguish between different sounds, words, and sentences during a variety of listening activities.
- …categories and group different words together while listening.
- …listen to a text and answer questions based on the information given.
- …predict possible events that take place in a story after reading a list of categories.
- …identify different joining sounds and write the correct answer during a listening activity.
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
- listening skill building
- prediction activities
- categories distinction
- sound & pattern differentiation
- sentence unscrambling
- group collaboration
THE POWER OF BOTTOM-UP LISTENING
While most auditory comprehension exercises develop students’ listening skills from the top-down (listening and answering questions) this lesson plan gets your students thinking about the relationship between sounds and words while building better linguistic awareness. By listening for and distinguishing patterns, relationships, and ideas between words and sentences, language learners using this approach are better able to develop life-long listening strategies that can be applied to real-life situations.
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About the Package
This package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with a lesson plan and detailed resource notes that walk you through how to teach using the bottom-up approach.
The bottom-up approach to listening can be intimidating at first. However, from experience, the concept is quickly understood after multiple teaching
sessions, and its benefits are manifold. For optimal success, it is recommended that this strategy not be done in isolation but revisited and interwoven with top-down listening approaches. Check out some of my listening resources that include audio.
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Terms of Use:
This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.
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