Our Listening Center



Making the Most of Limited Technology
Using iPads for Listening to Reading
EPIC Listening to Reading App

Using iPods and MP3 Players
Once you are on the info page, you can rename the file (with the book’s title) and add artwork. To add artwork, drag an image of the book’s cover to your desktop and upload from there. After I have uploaded the audio file, I use glue dots to put the cd and cd case in the inside cover of each book. That way, I always have the CD and could use it if we needed to use a CD player again.
Responding to Our Reading
On the shelf of our listening center, there are 3 colored folders – blue, yellow, and green – that hold comprehension activities for each of my 3 reading groups. Just as I differentiate Word Work, I do the same for Listening to Reading. Students may choose which book they listen to (I only keep 5-7 books out at a time), and then, choose the corresponding comprehension sheet. In each folder is a response sheet for fiction and nonfiction. Based on the book students choose to listen to, they pick their recording log. The logs are leveled with more support and sentence starters in the green folder and extension activities in the blue (above grade-level folder). I change out the comprehension activities based on the Reading Street skill from the previous week (i.e. & effect, character, setting, problem & solution, theme, main idea). You can snag these differentiated recording logs here.

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We use tumbleboks, storyline online, and youtube to listen and read along to books. I love your idea about recording a book and saving the link as a QR. That would be perfect for us!
-Maria
Love this post. I am firm believer in the power of a listening center. I remember one year I had an overabundance of walkmans (I have no idea where I found them). I had baggies that included a walkman (with cassette tape) and book. The kids could grab these little kits anything they finished something early or right when they came in for school in the morning. There was a lot of growth that year. Not sure if that is exactly why….but let's go with that 🙂
Em
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I love this. I know far too many administrators who do not "approve" of a listening center. However, I completely love them. Add some comprehension activities as you do, and it is perfect! 🙂
Meredith
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Hi! I am going to do a Donors Choose project for an iPod Touch. Which model did you end up getting? I love this post!
Would love if you would share your dropbox recordings and QR codes!!!
Use EPIC- it's free, and ABCMouse.com and RAZ-kids (not free)
I have been using Raz kids for three years. It comes with comprehension questions and gives the choice to listen,read and answer questions.
What do kids do if they are doing a reading comprehension sheet, but they are not finished once Daily 5 is over?
Hey Courtney! Not all activities take one round. Many times students will need to return to the choice during a later round or another day…and that’s okay!