Guide
Name
LAPS
Description
LAPS is an instructional frame and an acronym for active listening (Listen, Ask Yourself, Picture, Summarize). This strategy helps students organize, understand, interpret, and evaluate information. Resources: Assessing Active Listening blm/ela/g/elablm54 TBLM Do Your Laps blm/ela/g/success108 SBLM
Purposes
- [Statement] In order to plan for instruction and assessment, think about your learners' needs and your goal. Why are you using LAPS? [Cluster] - [Statement] To clarify and extend understanding (Clarify and Extend 1.2): Students use the Laps Frame to actively listen, record ideas, and develop understanding as they listen to speakers or view a video. [Cluster] Cluster 1.2- Clarify and Extend - [Statement] To demonstrate understanding of reading, listening, and viewing strategies (Comprehending: Reading/Listening/Viewing 2.1): Students use the Laps Frame to engage in active listening during presentations and lectures. [Cluster] Cluster 2.1- Comprehending: Reading/Listening/Viewing - [Statement] To demonstrate ability to use strategies and cues (Comprehending: Reading/Listening/Viewing 2.1): Students use the Laps Frame to identify main ideas and supporting details. [Cluster] Cluster 2.1- Comprehending: Reading/Listening/Viewing - [Statement] To demonstrate ability to gather, assess, and process information (Inquiry 3.2): Students use the Laps Frame to organize and make sense of information they hear or view. [Cluster] Cluster 3.2- Gather and Make Sense - [Statement] To demonstrate ability to organize, record, and assess information and develop new understanding (Inquiry 3.3): Students use the Laps Frame to structure, organize, and summarize information including main idea, supporting ideas and details, and to compare/contrast. [Cluster] Cluster 3.3- Inquiry
Specific Learning Outcomes LICT Descriptors How To Do
Related Information
- 1. Provide students with a LAPS Frame. 2. While listening to a speaker or presentation, or while watching a movie or video, students record questions, draw what they hear, and summarize their understanding in sentence or paragraph. Post the LAPS Frame as instruction for active listening When you Listen Ask yourself two or three questions and record them Picture what you hear and draw that Summarize in a paragraph Some students find note making very difficult. Often they are unable to attend to the meaning of new material in the rush to make notes. Teachers need model, to pace their presentations carefully, and to make frequent Š 2007 Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Created with Curriculum Navigator, - Page 1 -
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comprehension checks. Variations
Some students find note making very difficult. Often they are unable to attend to the meaning of new material in the rush to make notes. Teachers need model, to pace their presentations carefully, and to make frequent comprehension checks.
Assessment / Think Abouts
Record focused observations of evidence of attentive behaviour, e.g. looking at the speaker or video/film, controlling personal activity level, and encouraging the speaker with nonverbal cues. Observe also for appreciation for others' ideas looking for evidence of providing feedback or asking relevant questions.Active Listening link to fileFocused Observation Form blm/ela/g/blm_5 TBLMFocused Observation Form Sample blm/ela/g/blm_5a TI Conference with students using their Laps Frames to discuss and assess their questions, sketches, and summaries.
References
- Success for all Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, A Resource for Kindergarten to Senior 4 Schools p 6.54
Keywords
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