Whitepapers
Multimodal Learning is an Effective Scaffold
Multimodal lessons are effective for all students, especially linguistically and culturally diverse students, because they connect all four language domains: reading, writing, speaking and listening – and provide many pathways to access meaningful learning.
Is Listening a Missing Link to Academic Language Acquisition in Today’s Secondary Schools?
Many English Learners are not acquiring the level of academic language needed for college and career readiness. Are we underestimating the impact that ongoing work with oral academic language can have?
Lexile Framework® for Listening: Building Tools for Success
Research drove the development of the Lexile® Framework for Listening. Components of the Framework include: listening assessments that result in Lexile measures for students; audio analysis that results in Lexile measures for audio materials; and the placement of both student ability and audio material onto the Lexile scale.
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Key Listening Research
“On the Importance of Listening Comprehension”
Listening comprehension is a fundamental building block to reading comprehension development. Now there is new research evidence concerning a growing number of children who fail to develop adequate reading comprehension skills primarily due to poor listening comprehension.⇩ Download the Paper
“If You Want People to Listen to You, Tell a Story”
Ever notice that good stories get better student engagement? This research highlights the power of a meaningful story to specifically impact listening behavior.⇩ Download the Abstract
Case Studies
Sanger Unified School District
Sanger’s district wide adoption of Listenwise is a roadmap for any district with a large EL population, especially if they are struggling with low listening scores on standardized tests. As many educators have found, concentrating on building listening skills through teaching with podcasts helps with engagement, skill building, and listening assessment preparation for English learners and all students.
Clovis North High School
In 2015 Clovis piloted the new CAASPP test and saw alarmingly low scores in listening. After using Listenwise Premium for three years, Clovis North High School students listening scores increased by 26 percentage points, an increase of 15 percentage points higher than their district average.⇩ Download Case Study
Beaver Country Day School
Beaver uses Listenwise to create critical listeners who can question what they are hearing. The authentic stories and voices have generated a unique kind of engagement in their classrooms.⇩ Download Case Study
Lowell High School
Access to academic language, channeled through engaging content, is invaluable for Lowell’s booming population of English Language Learners. Teachers differentiate lessons to use Listenwise across a broad range of learners, settings, and subjects.⇩ Download Case Study