Selective Listening

Grade Level: 2
SOL standard(s): Science 2.4 Life Processes: The student will investigate and understand that
plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they mature and grow. Key concepts
include:
b) plant life cycles.
WIDA standard: ELP Standard 4, The Language of Science
WIDA level: 2, Emerging
Purpose: To assess the students listening abilities in the language proficiency in science,
specifically plants, their functional parts, and necessary characteristics of plant life

Objectives:
-Students will be able to process speech and identify key words and write them down in
the appropriate area in the listening cloze.
Example: Listen carefully to the following sentence and fill in the missing word. (Omitted
words are in red)
Test-taker hears: A tiny new plant sprouts from the seed.
Directions: Listen carefully to the discussion on plant life cycles. As I read, fill in the missing
words in the paragraphs below. Each word is worth 2 points. (Omitted words are in red)
Test-taker hears:
Every living thing goes through changes. Living things grow through different stages.
Then they reach the end of their life cycles and die. There are many kinds of plants. Each kind
has its own life cycle.
Many plants start their life cycles as a seed. The seed needs certain things or it will not
grow into a plant. Sometimes seeds wait in the ground until they can get the things they need.
They wait for warmth from the sun. They wait for water. When they have what they need, they
start to grow. A tiny little sprout will push out of each seed. The sprouts stretch up until they
poke through the dirt and into the air.