Social Emotional Learning Unit: Listening Activities

Whole body listening is the focus of this social emotional unit, where eyes, ears, mouth, hands, feet, brain and heart each have a job, taught through Simon Says, partner retelling, a listening walk and a song.
Grades
Preschool–Kindergarten, Grades 1–2
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Social Skills, Special Resources
Topic
Listening Activities, Emergent Reader
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The Social Emotional Learning Unit: Listening Activities is an 18-page resource full of ideas, lessons and printables to teach students about listening skills. You will receive a handout that includes teaching points, read-alouds, videos and extra activities. There is a letter to caregivers to support listening skills at home. After learning about effective ways of listening, students will get to write about what they've learned and practice their reading skills with the emergent reader.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify the body parts used in whole body listening

  • Follow spoken directions during listening games

  • Retell what a partner said

Teaching tips

  • The motor-break video and song are linked online, so internet access is needed for those activities.

  • Read-aloud titles such as The Listening Walk are suggestions; the books are not part of the file.

  • The two worksheet versions differ in word-bank length, and the shorter bank carries less text for early readers.

Skills covered

  • Active listening — practicing with Simon Says and partner retelling

  • Noticing sounds — reporting what they hear on a class listening walk

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Core concepts

  • Whole body listening

  • Following directions

  • Mindfulness

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