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  • Cooper Elementary School
  • Spokane, WA
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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While learning to read, students go through a series of activities to increase their reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and expressiveness. While practicing these skills, students may read to themselves, read to someone, produce word work and/or writing, or listen to reading. All of these have many literacy benefits for students in the early stages of learning to read. The literacy benefits of implementing a listening center are endless! We need a listening center and audio books. Tapes and CDs that come along with books allow students to follow along as the narrator reads, offering an opportunity to focus on the sounds of the words while providing a model of how fluent readers sound. As students listen to the narrator, they often hear music, changes in character's voices, and object noises, such as a door being slammed. Stories come alive like never before! A listening center can also benefit students in their comprehension skills as well. Having a small group of students listen to the same story aids in the conversation that follows regarding the characters, setting, or problem/solution. A listening center with materials for independent and small group listening will provide my students with an avenue to practice and enhance many of the important elements of learning to read.

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While learning to read, students go through a series of activities to increase their reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and expressiveness. While practicing these skills, students may read to themselves, read to someone, produce word work and/or writing, or listen to reading. All of these have many literacy benefits for students in the early stages of learning to read. The literacy benefits of implementing a listening center are endless! We need a listening center and audio books. Tapes and CDs that come along with books allow students to follow along as the narrator reads, offering an opportunity to focus on the sounds of the words while providing a model of how fluent readers sound. As students listen to the narrator, they often hear music, changes in character's voices, and object noises, such as a door being slammed. Stories come alive like never before! A listening center can also benefit students in their comprehension skills as well. Having a small group of students listen to the same story aids in the conversation that follows regarding the characters, setting, or problem/solution. A listening center with materials for independent and small group listening will provide my students with an avenue to practice and enhance many of the important elements of learning to read.

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