Educational Objective: The student will demonstrate behaviors consistent with being a good listener.
Language Arts Standard: Listening and Speaking

Materials Needed: The Prop Box with 2 telephones Brainstorm Form Appropriate Rubric: One for each student to complete during each role play. To download the student rubric, click here

The Lesson:

• Identify Need
• Introductory Activity: Brainstorm when you needed to be a good listener
• Define Steps and Sequences of Skill

1. Look at the person and use his name.
2. Listen actively.
3. Use place holders like "uh huh" and "yeah" to indicate you are listening.
4. Continue to look directly at the person.
5. Restate what you heard to demonstrate your comprehension.
6. Avoid making judgments about what the speaker is saying.
7. It is polite to agree with your friends.
8. Remember that "silence is consensus." If you say nothing, it usually means that you agree.
9. Keep restating what you've heard.
10. Make a comment if you have an appropriate and similar experience to share.
• Model the Skill
• Role Plays/Classroom Discussion - Complete Rubric for each role play
• Applications
• Independent Uses

Other Standards Address in Lesson:

Rubric for Observation and Role Play:

Rubric for Role Play:

Student (Speaker)____________________________ Student (Subject)____________________________

Date: _____________________ Observer's Name:___________________________________________

6th Grade
Speaking Applications:
2.4 Offer a logical sequence of information and engage the listener, foster an acceptance of an idea.

7th Grade
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Determine a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
1.6 Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation , inflection, tempo, enunciation and eye contact for effective communication.