Ages: 6-12
Grades: 1-7

Teach students to listen for details in what they hear with direct instruction, controlled content, and systematic progression in complexity. This book teaches students to know what they are listening for and match their listening strategy to the communication situation. Written in the proven format of the Spotlight series, these activities help students develop listening skills with:

• picture-supported lessons that shift to listening-only activities
• carefully controlled vocabulary
• a wide variety of curricular content as well as daily life experiences
• minimal demands for writing
• pretest/posttest

Students learn to detect details with step-by-step lessons that progress in this order:

• read single details to identify pictures
• solve riddles with and without picture clues
• understand and follow detailed directions
• answer detail questions about pictures
• listen to single sentences and short passages and answer questions about details within them

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2006