Introducing Our New ELD Lesson Library
This school year, give all your multilingual students a boost with new Listenwise features built specifically to support emergent ELs! Our newly-launched…
Read MoreBack-to-School Planning with Listenwise: Plan Out Your Year for Podcast & Video Lesson Integration!
Back-to-school season is planning time — and the perfect chance to prepare to try something new with your students! At Listenwise, we’re…
Read MoreHow Podcast Lessons Can Build Critical Listening Skills with Multilinguals
We recently held a webinar with author, educator, and multilingual thought leader Valentina Gonzalez, "Building the Listening-Reading Connection for Multilinguals." In this…
Read More3 Listening Comprehension Tools & Strategies for the Classroom
Listenwise recently participated in an Edweek webinar, “Strategies for English Learners,” featuring Stanford’s Dr. Jeff Zwiers. In this webinar, Dr. Zwiers shared…
Read More5 Benefits of Using Podcasts to Teach Academic Language to ELs
Educators use multiple strategies to teach academic language to English language learners. However, listening is often overlooked as teachers work towards helping…
Read More3 Ways To Use Weird News Podcasts As Texts for Teaching Literacy Strategies
Did you know our Weird News podcasts are some of our most popular lessons for English learners? We’ve heard so many success…
Read More5 Research-Based Listening Skills Exercises
We hosted an EdWeb webinar to share how educators can teach listening skills to promote literacy, including five research-based listening skills exercises…
Read MoreUse Weird News Podcasts to Support English Learners
Many educators who use Listenwise report that they love Weird News! These are less-than-30-second current event podcasts about unusual current events that…
Read MoreIntegrating Content & Language Instruction with Podcast Lessons
During our Teacher Talks webinar series last fall, we spoke with Erin Reaves, an English Language Development (ELD) instructional coach at Taylor…
Read MoreEnglish Learners and Listening – Listen Wise Book Ch. 6 Sneak Peek
(Pre-order the book and get stickers for your class!) Today’s blog post explores teaching listening to English learners from the chapter 6…
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