Listening isn’t just about hearing words—it’s about showing interest and care with your whole body. Real listening skills use your brain, eyes, ears, heart, and even your hands and feet to focus, understand, and respond in a kind way. While it may sound simple, listening takes effort, and like any skill, it gets better with practice.
The Listening Skills Worksheets offer two separate, but complementary worksheets that teach the basics of active listening in a way that’s easy to follow. Good Listening Skills focuses on listening with the whole body, while Practicing Listening Skills instructs clients to identify effective and ineffective listening behaviors. They are also given the opportunity to write appropriate responses for different situations.
Completing these activities guides young people to become better listeners by helping them become more focused and thoughtful. A good way to start is by picking one small habit, like not interrupting, and trying it during a conversation throughout the week.
To support this, caring adults can point out and praise good listening when it happens. Another fun idea is to do short role-play games where kids or teens can alternate between speaking and listening.
These worksheets pair well with our Good Listening Skills handout.
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References:
- Butler, Y. G., & Timpe-Laughlin, V. (2024). Listening and young learners. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening, 292-304. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003219552-25
- Kırkgöz, Y. (2018). Fostering young learners’ listening and speaking skills. The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners, 171-187. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315623672-12
- Yılmaz, H., & Yavuz, F. (2015). The problems young learners encounter during listening skills. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 197, 2046-2050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.570
