Grade 2 Listening practice

5 Grade 2 listening lessons, including which one doesn’t belong?, listen for details, listen for order, spell what you hear, story problems by ear. Each one has a short video where Pip explains the idea, a worked example, and endless new practice questions with step-by-step help when a child gets stuck.

Step 1: Which one doesn’t belong?

Good listeners notice groups: fruits, animals, colours.

Tip: Find what three words have in common.

Step 2: Listen for details

Details are small facts: who, what, how many, what colour and where.

Tip: Make a picture in your head while you listen.

Step 3: Listen for order

Words like first, next, then and last tell the order of events.

Tip: Listen for the order words.

Step 4: Spell what you hear

Some words are not spelled the way they sound, so we learn them by heart.

Tip: Picture the word in a book. Which spelling looks right?

Step 5: Story problems by ear

Listen for the numbers and the action: got more means add, ate or gave away means subtract.

Tip: Picture the story in your head.

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