As the 2022/23 school year draws to a close, we are taking a moment to look back at our most popular lessons published this school year. Keep this list handy for when you start planning your back-to-school lessons, or use it as inspiration for summer PD! Explore our list of the top 10 podcasts for…
Listenwise recently hosted a webinar with California teacher and newcomer advocate Efraín M. Tovar on the subject of using our platform with newcomer English learners. The conversation covered various topics such as the benefits of using Listenwise for newcomers, how to select and customize lessons, and how to provide adequate support for newcomer student learning…
Did you know our Weird News podcasts are some of our most popular lessons for English learners? We’ve heard so many success stories from teachers who use Weird News podcasts to help their students practice strategies that build literacy. Using podcasts as texts provides equitable access to students who struggle to read, as they may…
Listenwise elementary podcasts work in remote, hybrid, and in-class learning. Lessons can be taught synchronously, by playing an audio story for the class and projecting the interactive transcript on a screen, or asynchronously. Questions and listening organizers can be printed, or students can submit their work online. Quizzes can be assigned by the teacher or…
We are excited to work with new podcasts made especially for young people in our elementary collection! Earth RangersThe Past and the CuriousTumbleBook Club for KidsThe Good Words PodcastBut Why from Vermont Public RadioBedtime HistoryStory SeedsKojo for KidsExtra ScoopsBrains On!Stories Podcast Read more about each source, see sample podcast lessons, and learn how you might…
We are excited to share our rapidly growing collection of podcasts for elementary students! We’ve heard loud and clear the desire for audio in the elementary classroom as students are learning to read and transitioning to reading to learn. These simpler stories also help English language learners at WIDA level 2 and greater to help…
The connection between listening and reading makes a clear case for using audio stories to promote literacy, and Listenwise brings over 2500 great podcasts to elementary, middle- and high-school classrooms. Below we show you, step by step, how one elementary teacher used an audio story to engage her students in the topic of bird migration….
