Grade Eight
Listening
Literacy/Integrated Language Arts
National Standard for English/Language Arts: (attached)
 Standard # 8
 Standard # 10
 Standard # 11
New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standard (NJCCCS):
(3.4 Listening) All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.
Diocesan Standard (Expectation):
All students will demonstrate appropriate listening skills to enhance learning through the receptive process.
Receptive Process:
Includes decoding, comprehension, vocabulary, study skills, predicting outcomes, formulating questions, responding creatively and
accomplishing goals based on rubrics.
Content Outcome: Recognize a purpose for listening.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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Take notes and answer comprehension questions
Critique a TV commercial
Create a skit or game that shows reasons for positive
listening
Use a courtroom format to present viewpoints in a positive
or negative style
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Use the LQ2R method (listen, question, recite, re-listen)
Recall strategies for listening from other years
Follow directions in various games and skits
Read a short story and listen to responses of classmates
Listen critically, question what you hear, look for bias and note
hidden agendas
Listening Grade 8
Content Outcome: Activate prior knowledge.
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ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Fill in a K-W-L chart prior to class and explain
Describe a character from a story and then paraphrase
Create a story to tell to a younger child
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Create a K-W-L chart and brainstorm in small and large groups
Review steps for paraphrasing
Content Outcome: Receive and attend to the message.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Use an outline to present an explanation in a creative way
Summarize a newspaper article
Create a pictograph to explain a story or poem
Use a multiple intelligence to communicate a story
Choose a famous speaker and present an excerpt of a speech
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Outline prior to a lesson or a presentation
Take notes and then write summaries during a lesson
Add additional information to notes
Construct effective questions
Reword a reading to adapt to audience
Plan ways to present information using multiple intelligences
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Review making inferences
Discuss interpretation and point of view
Construct appropriate questions for a story or poem
Content Outcome: Assign meaning to the message.
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ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Choose a song which addresses theme and explain choice
Summarize a story to recall information
Express the point of view of an animal
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Listening Grade 8
Content Outcome: Respond to the message.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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Repeat a section of a poem or story
Choose a piece of writing and present a defending statement
Present a poem or excerpt from a story with a musical
background
Content Outcome: Develop self-monitoring comprehension strategies.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
 Present a positive or negative stand for a debate
 Contrast and compare characters from a story or from history
 Explain information from a review chart
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Recall and summarize information
Identify details
Create a supporting thesis
Give a set of verbal directions
Listen to music and discuss how music affects mood
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Create weekly review charts
Differentiate form and contents of words, accent, formal and
informal language
Introduce techniques that influence
Content Outcome: Extend the message.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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Repeat What I Heard You Say through a game
Share a strong opinion with an editorial
Create an essay based on a character’s actions
Write an epilogue or an additional chapter for a book
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Share weekly review charts
Demonstrate examples of exact and implied meanings
Respond to an issue by writing an editorial or essay
Read a chapter in a book and take notes
Play What I Heard You Say game
Listening Grade 8
OVERALL OUTCOME: Process Expand the listening process across all subject areas.
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ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Integrate ideas from one book to another
Create a character who involves different subjects and present
an introduction
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Discuss how to integrate subject areas
Listen to information in all subject areas
Connect vocabulary in different subjects
OVERALL OUTCOME: Assessment Critique self-monitoring strategies for listening.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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Present a foldable covering main ideas and supporting details
from a story or poem
Create an advertisement or song that expresses rules for
listening
Develop a rubric for listening
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Develop a foldable and graphic organizers to reveal or review
ideas
Explain a rubric and have students develop one for listening
OVERALL OUTCOME: Affective Development Create an environment that encourages, respects and enables the individual to learn and to
grow in the listening process appropriate to the needs of the student.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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Plan a lesson based on text and present to class
Respond to a peer’s presentation with respect
Present a TV news report about a character, story or poem
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Organize questions for classmates, peer leaders and teachers
Practice how to express opinions with respect
Role play an event or story
Listening Grade 8
OVERALL OUTCOME: Technology Literacy Demonstrate advance application of technology within the language arts program.
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ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Observe a PowerPoint presentation and critique
Paraphrase a famous speech on the computer
Use a PowerPoint presentation to sell a book you liked
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Listen to a speech from the computer, radio or TV and share
insights
Use the computer for notes, outlines and graphic organizers
OVERALL OUTCOME: Ethnic Diversity Understand and respect diversity in any community through the listening process.
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ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Share in a discussion about ethnic customs or languages
Paraphrase information about the lives of other students with
respect
Role play different cultures
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Develop an understanding of various cultures and dialects
Select pieces from specific novels or plays to enable students to
identify cultural diversity
Use world events to recognize the right choices for respectful
relationships with others
Listening Grade 8