Active Listening Skills Worksheet
A Grade 5 ELA worksheet focusing on understanding and practicing active listening skills.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand and practice active listening.
What is Active Listening?
Active listening is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding. It shows the speaker that you are engaged and truly hearing what they are saying, both with words and feelings.
Key parts of active listening include:
1. Paying full attention to the speaker.
2. Showing you are listening, often with non-verbal cues (like nodding or making eye contact).
3. Providing verbal feedback (like summarizing what they said or asking clarifying questions).
4. Not interrupting or judging.
1. Which of the following is NOT a part of active listening?
Making eye contact
Interrupting the speaker
Nodding your head
Summarizing what was said
2. Why is active listening important?
It makes conversations shorter
It helps you win arguments
It improves understanding and shows respect
It allows you to talk more
Read each statement and circle True or False.
1. An active listener frequently interrupts to share their own stories.
True
False
2. Making eye contact is a way to show you are actively listening.
True
False
Complete the sentences using the words below.
1. When you actively listen, you give the speaker your full .
2. It's important not to someone when they are speaking.
3. Active listening helps you better what others are saying.
4. Giving verbal shows you are engaged.
1. Describe one way you can show someone you are actively listening without saying a word.
2. Think about a time when someone actively listened to you. How did it make you feel?