Use this activity to refine listening skills. The Slide Deck includes 16 images and is accompanied by sample scripts describing each of the images.

How Can You Develop Listening Skills in Students?

Regardless of which strategies you use to develop listening skills, the goal is for students to demonstrate active listening.

If you’re wanting to improve students’ listening skills, you need to provide them with lots of opportunities to listen with a purpose.

This can be achieved through:

• listening to and following instructions
• playing listening games, e.g., ‘Telephone’
• playing drawing games that involve listening to instructions and then drawing appropriately
• listening to short stories and being prepared to answer questions relating to them.

Boost Listening Skills with A New Active Listening Exercise!

Our True or False Listening Activity helps direct students’ listening through its use of a visual stimulus. Each image in the PowerPoint of this resource has a matching story for students to listen to. Students listen to the description read by the teacher while viewing the image and decide whether the information is accurate or not. Vocabulary may be adjusted to suit the language level of the students.

Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.

If you’re looking for other resources that encourage attentive listening, try:

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Positional Language Activity – The Campground

An activity to use when teaching younger students about positional language.

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Color Me Carefully – Geometric Animals

Hone in on your students' speaking and listening skills with this barrier activity.

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Listen, Comprehend, and Color Worksheets

A listening comprehension exercise and art activity rolled into one.