Listen and Do

Do you have students who you know ARE listening but who don't always demonstrate that they are by following through?  Many of my students REALLY struggle with this!  Many of my students understand the concept of following the group plan but don't always demonstrate the skill without prompts.  Is it prompt dependency?  Processing time?  There are so many variables...What to do??  The intermediate teacher and I decided to provide some explicit instruction and practice with our students during group last week.

First, the intermediate structured learning teacher, defined what "listening" is by reviewing whole body listening with the students.  She utilized the Whole Body Listening book from the We Thinkers curriculum. 

I then introduced a social story to teach the idea of "Listen and Do".  While reviewing the story, we prompted "listen" and "do" on our classroom core board.  We then practiced this skills with a game of following directions.  We utilized the "pretend to be like a" Boardmaker activity that I used when teaching the core vocabulary of "like".  The students had a blast listening to the various animals and vehicles and then pretending to "do". 

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Finally, we ended the week by practicing many of the "all calls" the general education teachers are using in their classrooms.  We thought this would be a great way for our students to demonstrate to their peers that they are a part of their classrooms, help them to recognize that this is a cue for them to attend to a direction, as well as to "listen" and "do".   J emailed the general education teachers requesting all of their all calls and then I created a slide deck for our practice.

How do you support your students to "listen" and "do"?

Becky