Teach Your Students How to Be Good Listeners

Good listening is more than just hearing words! Being a good listener involves fully engaging with the speaker using your eyes, ears and heart. By being attentive, understanding non-verbal cues and responding with empathy, students can build stronger relationships, improve communication skills and create a more supportive and inclusive classroom environment.

This set of classroom anchor charts has been designed by our expert teacher team to remind your students of the skills required to be a good listener. The set includes one main poster that highlights the three key components of good listening – listening with your eyes, ears and heart – along with three individual posters that delve deeper into each specific skill.

• Listening with Your Eyes – This skill emphasizes the importance of maintaining eye contact and observing non-verbal cues.
• Listening with Your Ears – This skill highlights the need for active listening, paying attention and avoiding distractions.
• Listening with Your Heart – This skill encourages empathy, understanding and responding thoughtfully.

This set of good listening posters downloads as a full-color or black-and-white PDF.

Explore the Traits of a Good Listener

Looking for ideas as to how you might use these anchor charts to teach your students about the traits of a good listener? Read on for some suggestions from our teacher team:

• Interactive Discussion – Ask students to share examples of when they have witnessed a friend or classmate displaying good listening skills.
• Role-Playing Activities – Organise role-playing scenarios where students practice being good listeners. Use the posters as a guide for proper listening behaviors.
• Reinforce Behaviors – Use the poster as a reference throughout the school year to reinforce positive listening behaviors.

Download and Print These Good Listener Anchor Charts

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If you intend to display the posters, we recommend enlarging them for enhanced readability.

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