9/20 Active Listening & Questions

OBJECTIVES

• Students will learn about the purpose and importance of being an active listener.
• Students will generate a list of good listeners to reference when they are in large and small-group settings, which will help them practice good listening habits and maximize learning
• Students will engage with the text by asking questions to understand the text being read.

ACTIVE LISTENING
My questions helped me think about:

• action in the story and what might happen
• what some of the words meant
• how the character was feeling

My questions made me want to:

• discover more about this topic

I listened to the story because:

• I wanted answers to my questions
• Some of my questions weren’t answered. I need to read more and find out.

Think About It
How did questioning help you understand your book?