Thus, while building comprehension skills through listening can also boost reading comprehension, there are additional benefits to developing listening comprehension skills directly using audio passages that are designed to be heard.Ĩ Key Listening Comprehension Skills Assessed through Listenwise Quizzes: When students are listening to a speaker’s voice, they can also pay attention to the tone, emphasis, and pacing of the speech to help them make inferences or analyze the speaker’s argument. The natural speech found in these audio stories typically does not follow the structure of a written article with a clearly articulated lead and a linear progression of ideas.
For example, students need to practice identifying the most important ideas in audio stories, which can be organized differently than print stories. While listening and reading both require comprehension skills, many of which overlap, the application of those skills can vary somewhat across contexts. How did we decide which 8 key listening skills we wanted to assess and track? We identified comprehension skills that are included in reading assessments because we know the important connection between reading and listening. Teachers who have been using Listenwise report that they are seeing growth in their students’ listening performance on standardized tests. By looking at the quiz data dashboard and analyzing performance by skills, teachers and students can see patterns and identify learning needs, for classes, groups, and individual students, and then design instruction to meet those needs. These assessments include questions related to these 8 key listening comprehension skills, so teachers can analyze student performance data to get a more nuanced picture of listening comprehension strengths and needs. We have developed multiple choice formative listening comprehension assessments that accompany Listenwise lessons. Listenwise quizzes address the CCSS standards associated with SBAC ELA/Literacy Claim #3: Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences. In order to promote student proficiency in listening comprehension, we have identified 8 key skills, which align to Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessment evidence statements. To improve students’ listening skills, we need to be able to gather data on their performance, target specific areas of need, and then provide personalized instruction and targeted practice.Īt Listenwise, we support teachers by providing instructional support in literacy and other 21st century skills – particularly listening. Listening is key to all effective communication.
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