Some activities to improve english listening in your children!

Do you feel as if you spend more time talking at your child than to her? Many children have notoriously selective listening skills — they hear what they want and seem to tune out the rest.

But listening is a skill that we can help our children improve. Like a muscle, it needs constant exercise to grow stronger.

Here are some games and activities to boost your child's listening skills. Because children learn in different ways, the games are arranged by learning style.

1.Make up silly rhymes. The more absurd, the better. ("The fat cat ate the hat. Then the rat ate the fat cat who ate the hat...")

This activity will teach your child to listen for words that sound the same and to identify rhyming patterns.

2.Play a “directions” game. Again say, “Listen carefully.” Start with a two-step direction, such

 as, “Hop to the refrigerator then skip back to the chair.” Or if you are outside you might try,

 “Jump to the tree then hop over to the swing.” When your child can do a “two-step” direction with

 ease, increase the difficulty by adding another step. For example, “Run to the tree, hop to the 

swing, then come back and give me a hug.”

3.Group Storytelling.A good listener should be able to view a discussion as a whole, and not just its most immediate parts. The group storytelling activity is a fun, potentially silly, but incredibly valuable exercise in active listening and comprehension.

4.Copycat.Whisper a sentence to one child and ask them to repeat the sentence to the person sitting next to them.Continue this until everyone has heard the sentence.Ask the final child to say the sentence aloud.Ask the group why the sentence changed and stress the importance of listening in everyday life.

Come on! Let's go !

Dairén.