Building Listening Stamina

First grade is using An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni to build listening stamina.  This book has been chosen by first grade as their read aloud book for the week.  The students were given a purpose before the read aloud began.  Students were required to listen for a Tier 2 vocabulary word that they heard in the story.  Tier 2 words include frequently occurring words that appear in various contexts and topics and play an important role in verbal functioning across a variety of content areas.  The teacher drew a giant egg on the board where she listed the words the students heard as they listened to the story.