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  #1 Jeff Creamer on 01 May 15

   

  Listen Current provides free audio clips from public radio broadcasts (like NPR's) for use in the classroom. The "current events" clips may be played without signing up. With a free subscription, you get access to a Library of Common Core Lesson Plans; and activities such as a Language Identification Worksheet with certain clips. The Language Identification Worksheet struck me as possibly being quite valuable for ESL students: Students are directed to "Listen closely and check off each phrase as you hear it," then given a written set of phrases to recognize/identify as spoken: "Try to imagine a world without war, conflict, grief, or memory," "He began to lose pieces of his memory", "And I had to tell him about her death," etc. Other notes:
  * Lesson plans / audio clips are available for Science, Social Science, and ELA.
  * Premium features like "interactive transcripts" of the public radio stories [what are those?] are available by school/district subscription.
  * Site founder and current CEO is Monica Brady-Myerov, longtime public radio reporter.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><b>Listen Current</b> provides free audio clips from public radio broadcasts (like NPR's) for use in the classroom. The "current events" clips may be played without signing up. With a free subscription, you get access to a Library of Common Core Lesson Plans; and activities such as a Language Identification Worksheet with certain clips. The Language Identification Worksheet struck me as possibly being quite valuable for ESL students: Students are directed to "Listen closely and check off each phrase as you hear it," then given a written set of phrases to recognize/identify as spoken: "Try to imagine a world without war, conflict, grief, or memory," "He began to lose pieces of his memory", "And I had to tell him about her death," etc. Other notes: <br /> * Lesson plans / audio clips are available for Science, Social Science, and ELA. <br /> * Premium features like "interactive transcripts" of the public radio stories [what are those?] are available by school/district subscription. <br /> * Site founder and current CEO is Monica Brady-Myerov, longtime public radio reporter.</div>

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