Listening Activities for Kids

This book is a resource for those who want to put 21st century skills to work to improve listening comprehension and develop multidimensional thinking skills. The easiest way to understand what you listen to is to ask questions. For this purpose, you will encounter questions in the book that will help you gain the habit of using higher-order thinking skills. While these questions are sometimes directly related to the information listened to, sometimes they are created by including many higher-order thinking skills such as problem solving, decision making, hypothesizing, criticizing, and comparing based on the information listened to. One of the most important indicators of higher-order thinking is being able to find different solutions. Having more than one answer to a question will give students the opportunity to consider the text from different perspectives. Therefore, do not be surprised when you encounter more than one answer to some questions in the activities. Our book, full of activities, consists of a total of 83 activity examples that will allow you to dedicate one hour of your 5 or 6-hour weekly Turkish lesson to listening instruction. With these activities, you will be able to measure whether students understand what they listen to and thus be able to ask questions about listening in the assessment exams at the end of the semester. With this book full of listening activities, you will see that listening will become a skill that students need to develop and work on.