Podcasts For High School: Imagined Life, Scattered, Radiolab, Poetry Unbound
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Description
Use these ready-made plans for podcasts for high school students to allow your students to develop active listening skills while deepening their understanding of literary techniques.
Whether you're new to using podcasts in your classroom or you've already tried it out, these no-prep full unit plans, mini unit, and bell ringer activity will help you on your journey to using podcasts effectively!
Research shows that listening comprehension actually leads to better reading comprehension, which means that teaching podcasts in the secondary classroom is incredibly valuable! If you've never done it before, no worries! I have every single lesson you need to engage your students in this popular form of media plus tips to make it work!
What You Get In This Podcast Bundle:
- Imagined Life Unit: (2 week unit) Incredibly engaging podcasts with straight forward lessons; works beautifully for 9th-12th grade students.
- Scattered Podcast Unit (2 week unit): Memoir-style, multi-episode podcast with provocative themes. Excellent for 11th and 12th grade students.
- Radiolab episode (3 day mini-unit): Excellent lesson for introducing persuasive writing or working on summarizing and paraphrasing. This 3 day lesson is great for 10th-12th grade.
- Poetry Unbound bell ringer activity: Awesome way to get poetry in through a bite-sized activity. Works well for honors and AP students!
Each Podcast Unit Includes:
- Overview of the unit, plus the philosophy in teaching it
- Detailed daily lesson plans
- Digital and printable handouts for each lesson
- Fully-editable handouts so you can make them your own
- Culminating essay with clear guidelines
How These Lessons Engage Your Learners:
- Each episode from each podcast is engaging and relevant to teens because I've hand-selected these episodes!
- The listening guides give your students just enough to focus on without being overwhelmed.
- Listening instead of reading allows for a change of pace in your classroom while still allowing students to work on meaningful skills.
Podcasts can be incredibly effective and engaging when you have the right lessons to go along with the listening experience!
Help your students hone their active listening skills and have a great time in the process without you creating the whole thing from scratch!
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