3 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 MoreThe Intersection Between Listening and Reading– Listen Wise Chapter 5 Sneak Peek
(Pre-order the book below and get stickers for your class!) Today’s blog post explores the intersection between listening and reading from chapter…
Read MoreThis Is Your Brain on Listening – Listen Wise Book Sneak Peek of Chapter 3
(See below for how to get your button!) Today’s blog post takes a deep dive into an upcoming chapter of my book:…
Read MoreListening is a Skill – Listen Wise Book Sneak Peek on Chapter 2
Today’s blog post takes a deep dive into an upcoming chapter of my book: Listen Wise: Teach Students to be Better Listeners.…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Listening–Reading Connection
Careful listening is a valuable lifelong skill. It helps us learn language, integrate stories from our past, forge human relationships, and succeed…
Read MoreHow Do We Create Better Readers? Teach Listening.
A recent New York Times article, How to Get Your Mind to Read suggests that Americans are not good readers. "Many…
Read More8 Key Listening Comprehension Skills
Listening is key to all effective communication. To improve students’ listening comprehension skills, we need to be able to gather data on…
Read MoreTeaching Levels of Listening
Today’s post is written by Michael F. Opitz, professor emeritus of reading education from the University of Northern Colorado who has investigated…
Read MoreHow are Listening and Reading Related?
Since this blog post was written we've written an updated blog in 2019 on the research between listening and reading entitled: "Understanding…
Read MoreRead Along While You Listen
In a recent piece in The Atlantic, educator Michael Godsey writes about the impact of students reading transcripts while listening to podcasts. …
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