Developing reading and listening skills

Tips to Help Listening Skills

If we explicitly taught listening skills to every child, we would likely see benefits in terms of their ability to acquire knowledge and skills in a range of contexts.

Get planning and preparation right!

Get planning and preparation right!

Before seeking to teach listening skills, it’s vital that educators ensure that the right environment is established in which listening can take place.

Always consider:

Do any of your students have a physical limitation that makes listening difficult and which requires extra support?

Are there lots of external or background noise which makes audio content difficult to hear?

Is the audio equipment used to play or to listen to the audio material of sufficient quality?

Does the audio material meet the lesson requirements in terms of quality, content, and vocabulary? Is the speaker clear?

Are there cues that enable students to pick up what they can without trying to translate every word?

Building listening skills in foreign language learning

Building listening skills in foreign language learning

Go beyond fact-based questions

Support better note-taking

Don’t just press play!

Springboard into other activities

How can help educators to teach listening skills?

How can help educators to teach listening skills?

Create engaging listening exercises

Assign exercises

Conversation practice

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FCE Listening part - Exam English

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Tips to Help Reading Skills

Annotate and highlight text

Annotate and highlight text

Highlight and underline valuable information

write notes

stay focused and improve comprehension

write down questions

to define a new word.

Personalize the content

Personalize the content

increase their understanding

make personal connections

comprehend the text by helping

Practice problem solving skills

Practice problem solving skills

Blend real-world

curriculum

write out solutions to the problem

discuss their ideas

Incorporate more senses

Incorporate more senses

Add in activities

Read with a pen or pencil

Take turns reading out loud

Understand common themes

Understand common themes

Look for examples

Share their findings

in-depth

Set reading goals

Set reading goals

Reading goals

Example: Make a list

- I will read X number of nonfiction books.
- I will pick a new topic every month and read about it.
- I will read a book by a new author every month.
- I will read X number of books in a specific genre.
- I will read for X minutes every night.
- I will read a chapter every night.

Take action in building reading skills

Read in portions

Read in portions

into pieces

Shorter segments

build confidence

complex subject

Let students guide their reading

Let students guide their reading

reading material and curriculum

reading activities

find improvement

future learning

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EFC: Reading - Upper intermediate B2

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