• Students ask questions to better understand the topic, text, or other media presented.

• Students repeat back to the speaker what the speaker said using their own words. 

• Students ask for help to understand the topic, text, or other media presented.

• Students gain new information through the topic, text, and other media presented.

• Students use strategies for jotting down key words or questions to help them remember what they want to say as they wait for their turn. 

• Teachers provide 

• examples of focused and well-formed questions.

•  opportunities to practice asking focused and well-formed questions to better understand the topic, text, or other media.

• opportunities for students to receive feedback.

• Teachers model 

• how to develop focused and well-formed questions.

• how to gain information through the topic, text, or other media.

• how to ask for help to understand the topic, text, or other media. 

When students struggle with understanding or participating in active listening, the teacher can..

• have students act out what active listening does and does not look like.  

• have anchor charts available to reference hung in the room. 

• have students repeat the speaker's message to a partner to show that they heard it.

When students struggle to form questions, teachers can

• display question stems in the classrooms for students to easily reference.

• have students write down thoughts during the speech to refer to later for clarification and questioning.

• Active Listening: the active pursuit of what another person is saying and feeling as a way to improve mutual understanding. Active listening involves hearing content, listening for tone, observing body language, paraphrasing, summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and reflecting.

• Sentence/Question Stems: a word or phrase that begins a sentence and helps a writer or speaker organize their thoughts.

• 4.7.R: Explore multimodal content

• 4.7.W: Create multimodal content