Listening & Speaking Teaching Resources
Build your students listening and speaking skills this year with the help of dramatic play activities, interactive listening challenges and more teacher-created resources.
This extensive collection of printable and digital resources was created with both your lesson planning needs and your students in mind to help teachers give students a strong foundation with communication skills that will last them a lifetime.
Help students learn how to greet one another appropriately, how to express their needs and wants and how to carry on a conversation across multiple exchanges. Explore tasks cards and activities designed to explore active listening skills and help students learn the difference between asking and telling and a whole lot more!
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Directed Drawing for Kids - How to Draw Corn on the Cob
Use this directed drawing activity with your students to teach them how to draw corn on the cob and enhance classroom listening.
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Directed Drawing Activity - How to Draw a Spider
Teach students how to draw a spider with a fun directed drawing activity for elementary students.
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Non-Contact Morning Greetings Posters
Non-contact greetings that students can do with their teachers and peers.
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A Good Listener... Posters
A set of posters to use when learning about good listening skills.
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Speaking Skills for Oral Presentations Poster
A poster that explains the skills students need for a great oral presentation!
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Student-Led Discussion Strategies Poster Pack
Describe student-led discussion strategies with this set of 8 posters.
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Listen, Comprehend, and Color Worksheets
A listening comprehension exercise and art activity rolled into one.
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Secret Threading Task Cards
Practice listening and speaking skills with this fun barrier activity.
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Shopping Cart Matchup Activity
A speaking and listening activity to reinforce a variety of mathematical concepts.
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Find Four Icebreaker Activity
A fun icebreaker activity to use at the beginning of a new school year.
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I Can Listen Poster
A poster to scaffold appropriate behavior for students when listening in class.
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Formal and Informal Greetings – Worksheet
A sorting worksheet where students distinguish the differences between formal and informal greetings.
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Interview a Classmate - First Day of School Activity
Help your students learn more about their new classmates (even if they have been together for the last 5 years) with this fun speaking and listening activity!
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Question Starter Display
A classroom display to encourage questioning in the classroom.
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One Word Story Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages creative thinking and teamwork.
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Classroom Word Charts
Kick off the new year and introduce your learners to the things in their school and classroom with vocabulary-building Classroom Word Charts.
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Public Speaking Tips - Poster
A poster to use when teaching your students about public speaking.
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Directed Drawing Activity - How to Draw a Clown
Teach students how to draw a clown with a fun directed drawing activity created by teachers.
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Group Work Role Cards
Review and reinforce eight possible roles for group work with this set of 2-in-1 reusable posters and desk cards.
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Directed Drawing - How to Draw a Piece of Cake
Use this directed drawing activity of a piece of cake to help students develop their listening skills in the classroom.
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Speaking and Listening Activities Task Cards
A set of 13 cards with instructions for speaking and listening activities.
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Color Me Carefully Game
Practice your students' listening and speaking skills with a fun coloring activity.
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How to Get Students to Follow Instructions the First Time — Teacher-Tested Tricks
Is following instructions a challenge for your students? Try these teacher-tested tips to help your students learn to listen and follow directions more closely.
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