Being a Good Listener Part 2

Being a Good Listener | Companion Activity Part 2 reinforces and expands the language, comprehension, and critical thinking skills introduced in the life skills video through more advanced, structured activities. Students describe listening and social interaction pictures using “say it, see it, and describe it” prompts, generate narratives about situations that require good listening skills, and answer opinion-based questions to strengthen expressive language skills. The resource also includes inferencing and prediction tasks related to listening behaviors, understanding others, and recognizing social cues, as well as multi-step verbal and written direction-following activities with modifiers to strengthen listening and reading comprehension. Additional activities target higher-level language skills, including analogies, multiple-meaning words, semantic relationships, grammar practice with pronouns, irregular past tense verbs, and irregular plural nouns, and figurative language such as idioms, metaphors, and similes. These engaging tasks deepen understanding, strengthen language development, and support attentive listening, comprehension, and positive communication in everyday situations.

Learning Objectives
  1. Describe listening and social interaction pictures using complete, expanded sentences.
  2. Generate narratives about situations that require good listening.
  3. Answer opinion questions about listening and communication.
  4. Make inferences and predictions about listening behaviors and social cues.
  5. Follow two- and three-step verbal directions accurately.
  6. Follow three-step written directions with modifiers.
  7. Demonstrate understanding of analogies, multiple-meaning words, and semantic relationships.
  8. Use pronouns, irregular past tense verbs, and irregular plural nouns correctly.
  9. Interpret idioms, metaphors, and similes in context.
  10. Apply higher-level language skills to attentive listening and everyday communication.
Associated Life Skills Video
Associated Companion Activity

Being A Good Listener