CALM Listening Resources:

• Whole Body Listening Slideshow75 and Teacher Handout

• 5 L's of Listening Poster53

• 5 L Hand Listening 53 and 5 L Fingers of Listening53

• Voice Thermometer and Explanation

Class Discussions:

• Class Discussions about Attention 73

• Class Rules 64

Classroom Layout:

• Seating Plans

CALM Classroom Activities to Enhance Listening Skills:

• Shopping Time (listening for missing information)

• Riddles (listening for clues)

• Recording Important Information (note-taking)

• Following Directions (listening and doing)

• Answering Questions (active listening)

 

Classroom Resources available for Purchase:

1. Listen and Learn: Activities for Active Listening. A Variety of very hands on activities that promote active listening. Love & Reilly 2007

2. Look Who’s Listening (board game)
   Ten auditory games in one to target auditory memory, integration and discrimination skills. Nancy Crist and Rose Sheedy.

3. Fold & Say – Auditory and Story Comprehension
   Focuses on improving the student’s listening and reading skills. Activity Booklets and CD-ROM. Written by Diane Hyde. Super Duper Publications.

4. Speaking, Listening & Understanding - “Games for young children”
   A Speech Mark Classroom Resource. Designed to foster the speaking, listening and understanding skills of the student. Catherine Delamain and Jill Spring.

5. “Say & Do” Auditory Lessons (Diane Hyde)
   Two Level questions sheets for Auditory Association, Discrimination, Memory and Reception.

6. Say & Glue for Language and Listening
   Targets 6 important categories: categorization, telling what items are used for, following complex directions, following conditional directions, retelling stories, and understanding basic concepts. Fun Sheets. Alyson D. Price.

7. Webber Story Builder
   Teaching students to tell, retell and analyze stories. Target’s the student’s ability to listen and read carefully, remember details and summarize information. Super Duper Publications

8. MagneTalk Match-up - Adventure Kit
   Language-based Magnetic Barrier games. It targets language and listening skills through the barrier game format to encourage the students to follow directions, give directions, storytell and improve vocabulary.

9. Following directions – Fun Deck
   This focuses on improving the student’s memory, motor skills and processing of directions. Created by Melanee Callough

10. Spotlight on Listening Comprehension – sequencing activity
    Main aim of this activity is to train the student’s language and auditory systems to attend, process, think and respond with accuracy. Created by Caroline LoGuidice and Paul F. Johnson.

11. Leap into Listening!
    83 Reproducible scenes with activities for auditory memory, receptive listening, and language expansion. CD-ROM included. Written by Thomas Webber and illustrated by Mark Bristol.

12. Auditory Memory – High Interest Quick Stories
    Focuses on improving higher-level auditory memory and comprehension skills. CD-ROM included Written by Audrey Price and Mark Strait. Illustrated by Hack Vaughan and Daryl Hutchinson.

13. Listening and Remembering Specific Details
    This book provides 29 two-part lessons to work on the student’s ability to remember specific information and details. Written by Jean Gilliam DeGaetano and illustrations by Kevin N. Newman.

Victorian Suppliers:

• ACER

• Brainstormed

• Funstuff

• Love & Reilly