Answer to Question 1
Why: most common type of listening in school; students need to remember big ideas and understand relationships among those ideas. Techniques: activate background knowledge, use manipulatives, create graphic organizers, have students take notes. Examples: Will vary by student.
Answer to Question 2
What: ability to interpret media messages; questioning what is seen on TV, internet, in magazines. Helps children become savvy media consumers. How: asking critical questions (considering perspective, values, media techniques, intended audience, who benefits, what has been omitted)