Audio listening practices: Exploring personal experiences with audio texts
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A lesson plan for grades 9–12 Information Skills
Students are challenged to evaluate their media listening habits to search for patterns and implications of personal interests. In small groups, students evaluate their weekly listening habits by exploring the process used by Arbitron, an audience research company. After analyzing one of several Arbitron reports, students provide some general details on what the report revealed about different listening audiences in America. Using their own listening surveys, students individually compare their survey answers to the details from national surveys in order to begin their analysis process. Students share their personal analysis in peer review sessions, and after editing and revising their work, students share their findings with the whole class. Readwritethink provides several suggestions of literary works with which this unit corresponds and activities that would make the learning more authentic. This lesson provides all the resources necessary for effectivly implementing this activity.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Information Skills (2000)
Grade 9–12
- Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
- Objective 1.08: Select and use independently, both within and outside the school, a variety of resources (print, non-print, electronic) and formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).
- Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
- Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia, web-based).
