Listening Games (Book)

Bring an element of fun and spontaneity to learning listening skills. This wide variety of games reflects classroom listening demands.

The games give students practice in a broad brush of listening skills that also reinforce reading comprehension:
• Phonological Awareness—rhyming for one- and two-syllable words
• Concepts—25 spatial and attribute concepts
• Riddles—three item and one-item clues
• Absurdities—give logical answers to questions, identify illogical elements in sentences, and state absurdities
• Associations—identify associated items and activities, make word associations
• Following Directions—follow one-, two-, and three-step directions
• Auditory Reception—differentiate true and false statements, answer questions
• Emotions—identify and express emotions in sentences
• Noun/Verb Agreement—noun/verb agreement with is/are, was/were, has/have, and does/do
• Verb Tenses—regular and irregular verbs in past and future tense
• Details—identify and understand details in paragraph-length passages
• Main Idea—identify categories, identify the main idea in informative passages
• Story Comprehension—answer basic comprehension questions about stories
• Exclusion—identify items that don't belong, answer exclusion questions
• Predicting—choose the most likely prediction, predict what might happen next
• Inferencing—infer who is speaking, the topic, and the location based on dialogue
• Paraphrasing—identify same and different meanings, practice paraphrasing
• Reasoning—explain why something is illogical, identify causes of events

The games are easy to set up and play. You will need different colored game tokens; dice; crayons, markers, or colored pencils; glue sticks; and game chips to play the games. Distribute the games as printed, or color and laminate them for future use