Listenwise
Overview
- Overview
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Listenwise is a classroom audio and video lesson platform built around authentic public-media content. Students listen to curated stories with transcripts, vocabulary, comprehension supports, discussion prompts, and connected assessment or writing. The media story, transcript, and comprehension task define the instructional context. Teachers connect listening evidence with vocabulary, discussion, and written work when reviewing understanding.
Features
- Features
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Audience and instructional role
Grades / learners:
elementary through high-school learners, including multilingual learners
Primary users:
students, ELA and content-area teachers, multilingual-learner staff, and literacy specialists
Learning focus:
listening comprehension, academic language, current events, speaking, reading, and writing — a classroom audio and video lesson platform built around authentic public-media content
How it supports learning
- Students listen to curated stories with transcripts, vocabulary, comprehension supports, discussion prompts, and connected assessment or writing.
- Teachers should connect use to explicit learning goals and inspect student work rather than rely on completion, time-on-task, or engagement alone.
Implementation and instructional decisions
- Select timely content carefully, provide context and multiple perspectives, and confirm whether Lingolift or other bundled components are also licensed.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the continuing role of teacher judgment.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A
Listenwise Privacy Policy:
https://listenwise.com/terms/
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
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Company News
- Company News
Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
Learning Management System Connectivity
Select a connector to see every product that supports it.
Research shows that if you are not a good listener, you won’t be a good reader.At its core is the basic tenet that reading comprehension is the result of listening comprehension plus decoding (Gough and Tunmer, 1986). Now there is new research e. vidence concerning a growing number of children who fail to develop adequate reading comprehension skills primarily due to poor listening comprehension. (Hogan, 2014)
Research shows that if you are not a good listener, you won’t be a good reader.At its core is the basic tenet that reading comprehension is the result of listening comprehension plus decoding (Gough and Tunmer, 1986). Now there is new research e. vidence concerning a growing number of children who fail to develop adequate reading comprehension skills primarily due to poor listening comprehension. (Hogan, 2014)
Note: SDLA does not endorse or resell any products listed on the site. They are listed simply to aid in the development of integration resources for school district ed-data leaders.
Media
Videos
