How can you tell they’ve got it: Listening to Others?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Face the speaker and maintain attention while someone else is talking; Wait until the other person has finished before responding; Respond to what was actually said rather than changing the subject to their own idea. Or just try it together: When a friend is telling your child about their weekend, does your child actually listen and ask questions about it — rather than immediately jumping in to talk about their own weekend?

Personal & Social Development Friendship & Cooperation Ages 5–7

Listening to Others

Your child can really listen when someone talks. They look at them, wait until they finish, and answer what was said.

In curriculum terms

Listen to others when they are speaking — looking at the speaker, waiting until they finish, and showing they have heard by responding to what was said rather than just talking about their own ideas

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Face the speaker and maintain attention while someone else is talking
Wait until the other person has finished before responding
Respond to what was actually said rather than changing the subject to their own idea

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Try this together

When a friend is telling your child about their weekend, does your child actually listen and ask questions about it — rather than immediately jumping in to talk about their own weekend?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Vocabulary: working with othersages 5–8Active listening practice requires understanding the vocabulary of listening, agreeing, and disagreeing respectfully

Listening and respondingages 4–11SEL listening skills build on curriculum speaking & listening foundations

Listening to Othersthis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

Resolving Disagreements with Friendsages 7–9Resolving disagreements builds on listening to others

Working Well in a Groupages 7–9Group work builds on listening skills

Asking for Helpages 5–7Asking for help benefits from knowing how to communicate with others

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HPFP03low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Foundation · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Asking for Helpages 5–7 Makes someone a good friendages 5–7 Taking Turns and Sharingages 5–7 Vocabulary: working with othersages 5–8

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