Ages: 6-12
Grades: 1-7

Carefully sequenced activities guide students to identify the topic and main idea of what they hear. The learning parallels essential reading comprehension skills. Students learn to visualize what they hear without picture-supports while keeping their listening purpose of identifying the main idea in mind as they hear the information presented orally.

The activities progress systematically:

• differentiate the main idea from details in pictures
• identify the main idea of a picture
• identify the topic of a group of pictures
• identify the topic of groups of words
• identify the topic and main idea of paragraphs, fables, and messages.

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

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2006