Can You Hear Me Now?

Since one of our learning goals for the current literacy unit has to do with being active, attentive listeners, we have been learning good strategies to help us in this area.  We have decided that we need to have eye contact with the speaker, be still and quiet, question the speaker to clarify information, restate information as a way to confirm information, and use jot notes as a memory aid.  Today we were evaluated on this skill.  In groups, each student read their animal feature article aloud to their group, and the group members were supposed to be active, attentive listeners.  They were listening for important information that they recorded on their graphic  organizers.  These will be evaluated and returned to the students next week.