CuewordListening Comprehension Classes for Kids
Live one-on-one listening comprehension coaching for Grades 2–8, built on stories your child picks. Each term has a mid-term and an end-of-term assessment on listening comprehension, reading comprehension and vocabulary.
Listening Comprehension: Hear It, Then Talk About It
Hearing a story or passage closely, then talking about what happened and why.
Your child listens, reads, speaks and writes about the same story, all as one experience.
Listening & Reading
Hearing and reading a story closely, then talking about what happened and why.
Finding the Main Idea
Holding on to the main idea of what they hear and read.
Summing Up
Summing up a story read aloud without adding opinion.
One Scene, Two Tellings
Hearing one event told by two narrators.
Three Terms. One Coach. A Showcase Every Term.
Stories in Term 1, true texts in Term 2, opinions and arguments in Term 3.
Term 1 · Storytelling
Telling a story well: your child reads a story closely, then retells it and writes one of their own. Ends in a Showcase: a story, told live.
Term 2 · Explaining
Explaining clearly: true stories and real topics, explained in their own words. Ends in a Showcase: an explainer, presented.
Term 3 · Persuading (Arguing in Grades 6–8)
Making a case: an opinion with reasons in Grades 2–5, and a full argument that answers the other side in Grades 6–8. Ends in a Showcase: a case, argued.
Listening Comprehension, Grade by Grade
How your child listens in Term 1, Storytelling, at each grade.
Each grade page shows all three terms.
2nd Grade
Hears a story read aloud and says what it is mostly about, picks out the details that support it, and retells the most important part first.
Explore Grade 2 →3rd Grade
Hears a story read aloud and gives its main idea with two supporting details, picks out details that explain why, asks the speaker a question, and tracks who said what.
Explore Grade 3 →4th Grade
Hears a story read aloud, restates parts of it and a character's lines in their own words, separates its topic from its lesson, and follows one scene told two ways.
Explore Grade 4 →5th Grade
Summarizes a story read aloud, compares two moments, hears one event told by two narrators, catches figurative language, and notices where the telling speeds up or slows down, and why.
Explore Grade 5 →6th Grade
Sums up a story read aloud without adding opinion, spots a narrator whose telling doesn't add up, and compares a scene's tone and pacing across two readings and the page.
Explore Grade 6 →7th Grade
Tracks a theme in a story read aloud, contrasts two narrators telling one scene, hears a historian on the story's historical period, and compares a performed scene with the page.
Explore Grade 7 →8th Grade
Catches the turning line in a story read aloud, hears an old myth beside it, notices what a character doesn't know, and spots where a performance departs from the text.
Explore Grade 8 →Listening Comprehension, Checked Twice a Term
Every term has a mid-term and an end-of-term assessment of what your child has mastered and a live Showcase in your presence, and it all comes together in your term reports.
A Class Summary After Every Class
The story, the skill and how it went, from your child's coach.
Term Reports in Your Inbox
Two reports each term, after the mid-term and end-of-term assessments, with your coach's feedback and a plan for next term.
Plans for Grades 2–8
Same coach, same curriculum.
Grades 2–5 can pick the class length; Grades 6–8 take the 55-minute Standard plan.
Basic
40-minute classes26 classes · $520 per term (USD)
- Two 1:1 classes a week
- 26 classes over three months
- Same coach all term
- Two parent-coach meetings a term
- Live Showcase and two term reports
Standard
55-minute classes26 classes · $650 per term (USD)
- Two 1:1 classes a week
- 26 classes over three months
- Same coach all term
- Two parent-coach meetings a term
- Live Showcase and two term reports
Standard
55-minute classes26 classes · $650 per term (USD)
- Two 1:1 classes a week
- 26 classes over three months
- Same coach all term
- Two parent-coach meetings a term
- Live Showcase and two term reports
Questions About Listening Comprehension Classes
What will my child learn across the year?
The year runs in three terms: Term 1 Storytelling, Term 2 Explaining and Term 3 Persuading (Arguing in Grades 6–8). Each term ends in a Showcase your child writes and performs in your presence. Each term also has a mid-term and an end-of-term assessment, each with a detailed report. Each level is harder than the last, and the difficulty climbs term by term and grade by grade.
What does a class look like?
Live, online and one-on-one with the same coach all term. Your child picks the stories they want to do in each class, then listens, reads, learns words in context, speaks and writes about them.
How will I see progress?
After every class, the coach sends a class summary in the Cueword Parent app. You also meet the coach twice a term, and get a report after each mid-term and end-of-term assessment, which check listening comprehension, reading comprehension and vocabulary.
Is this homework help or exam prep?
Neither. Cueword is a communication program, built around stories your child picks. It builds how your child listens, reads, speaks and writes, which shows up everywhere.
How many kids are in a class?
Just your child. Every class is one-on-one with the coach, including the Showcase at the end of each term. Not a small group that's called 1:1.
What if my child has gaps from earlier grades?
That's common. If the evaluation or coach spots a gap, the coach fills it with foundation lessons within your 26 classes a term, with no extra classes to book.
What is the Cueword evaluation?
A free, 50-minute, one-on-one session with a Cueword specialist. It's a dialogue, not a test. It covers all five skills (listening comprehension, reading comprehension, public speaking, creative writing and vocabulary), and you get a Cueword Report the same day.
Start With a Free Cueword Evaluation
50 minutes, one-on-one, not a test. You get a report and a recommended plan the same day.
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