With the beginning of every new school year comes the beginning of screening season. Requests from teachers and parents to have their child’s speech and language abilities quickly assessed come pouring in, or at least that can be how it feels. One of the most common areas I get requests for is listening comprehension. This request typically stems from the following complaints:
– Difficulty answering questions from text or
– Difficulty understanding new vocabulary introduced from text
– Unable to create inferences
– Difficulty predicting
– Unable to summarize information
– etc.
Yes, difficulty following directions is often included in this list but I tend to look at following directions as a receptive language issue.
So as my requests came in, I realized I didn’t have any listening comprehension screenings available that would be applicable with the new Common Core. So to remedy this frustrating situation I made my own. I cannot tell you how many hours I have spent on these. They have been tweaked, revised, updated, and altered. Phew. They have been reviewed by grade level teachers, reading specialists, and other SLPs. I had to make sure that were complex enough, but not to difficult, for the ‘average’ student in each grade level to be able to complete successfully.
So here you go, my finished product! Keep in mind, these are not normed or standardized. They were created to be able to give you a snapshot of a student’s listening comprehension skills as they are aligned with the Common Core expectations and standards of their grade level.
There are screenings for Kindergarten thru 5th grade.
Each screening as a story for students to listen to and a series of corresponding questions. Next to each question is the standard that it is aligned with.
Each question is assigned a point valued based on the difficulty and demand of the task. Information and directions are included, as well as, a scoring example for reference.
Hopefully these help you gain some insight on your student’s listening ability.
Now how about a chance to win a set! I will choose 3 winners on Wednesday, Good Luck! If you don’t want to wait you can add this to your speech room by clicking HERE.
23 Responses
These look great! I can only imagine how work it was.
I use short stories to target listening comprehension. I love your sample and would love to have these to use as a baseline for my students!
These look so helpful; so many of our students have difficulty with listening comprehension and I haven’t found a product, before, that really applied to this area! Thanks!
ohhh, looks like you’ve been super busy. I can’t wait to get my hands on this. Great product!
I like to use short stories from the reading texts. I am a fan of Say & Glue for Language and Listening from Super Duper as well.
I use the short paragraphs from the HELP books for listening comprehension.
I do a lot of auditory memory and processing activities
I use some Say&Gue for Language and Listening, No-Glamour Listening Comphension, and Listening, Understanding, Remembering, and Verbalizing.
Short stories and passages. The preview looks great.
Reading stories and answering questions and using the Story Pals app.
This would be great for getting baseline data and helping to write goals for these students! Thanks!
I use the Listening Comprehension book (Linguisystems) pre-test/post test to screen. You can look at comprehension of all wh questions. Passages vary from one sentence to four sentences.
I like using SD Fun Decks for comprehension. With upper elem, I like using their science or social studies texts also. This looks like a great product for baselines and helping to create goals. Thanks for sharing!
I usually use Super Duper fun decks. I’ve been trying to use more story books, and having the kids answer questions from key details.
I like to use short videos such as TED talks with my older students!
I like to use short stories and paragraphs, especially from their classroom work.
I use picture books and my story comprehension rope.
I usually uses short stories or super duper fun decks
I also use the HELP books, short stories, and several packets that I’ve purchased from TPT.
I love listening comprehension activities!
I also use a lot of the Super Duper Fun Decks to target listening comprehension!
I’ve used Hear Builder – Quick Interest Stories…or I will try to use a text they are using in the classroom