Auditory Discrimination
Teacher arranges small group
of pupils, no more than six, around a large table.
The exercise is explained
to the pupils carefully.
The cassette player is
switched on and the first sound is played.
Teacher helps children
to identify the sound and uses the opportunity to place the
sound-word in context.
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Sound: Doorbell ringing:
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Teacher ‘Someone rang the
doorbell’
‘Who rang the doorbell’ ?
‘Did Sean ring the doorbell’? Etc....
Then the next sound is played
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Sound: Dog barking:
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Teacher: ‘Do you hear the
dog barking’?
‘Why is the dog barking’?
'Does your dog bark’ Etc....
On the second playing
of the sounds
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teacher encourages the pupils
to identify the sounds.
This may take some time
and several runs of the tape may be needed.
Up to ten common sounds
should be used.
When these sounds have
been recognised,
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teacher introduces picture-cards
representing each sound.
Each pupil must be helped
to recognise what sound the picture represents..
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Now cards are spread before
the pupil on the desk and the correct card must be picked up on the playing
of its matching sound.
To reinforce the lesson,
picture prompts are withdrawn and pupil must name the sound.
The lesson is further
reinforced by switching off the tape and asking pupils to name the sound
from the matching picture.
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Teacher: ‘What is the dog
doing’? etc..
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And finally, the pupil will
be helped to build the sound-word into a phrase or sentence.
E.g. The dog is barking
/ I hear the dog barking / I ring / rang the doorbell etc..
Auditory Discrimination
Further back-up lessons
in listening skills involve the use of Computer and software package.
With same small group of
pupils, teacher opens
‘My First Incredible
Amazing Dictionary’( DK) and opens the Games option.
In Games, select ‘What’s
that noise’? game and explain as follows;
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As each door is clicked,
an animal noise is heard
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Pupil must identify which
animal made the sound and click on the correct animal.
[ Follow -up work ]
Teacher can continue to
reinforce the listening skills in many other ways including this number-card
game.
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One pupil (Kate) stands
with back to the group.
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Each pupil in turn calls
out a word or number.
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(Kate) must identify the
word/number by holding up its matching card.