Read Charlotte Listening Comprehension Resource Center

Developing strong listening comprehension skills during, and beyond, the early elementary grades will support students’ reading comprehension ability. Learn about, teach, and assess listening comprehension using the Read Charlotte Listening Comprehension Resource Center. 

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The Research aka
Knowledge Base

The Knowledge Base offers a curated set of recent evidence-based research findings intended to help practitioners better understand listening comprehension and its connection to other literacy skills (such as word reading, reading fluency, background knowledge, and reading comprehension).

Search the Materials Directory

Filter by listening comprehension skill, grade, and/or standard (NC ELA Anchor Standard an/or NC PK Early Foundations for Early Learning and Development), to find resources to target listening comprehension in the classroom. 

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Activity 168
Assessment 5
Intervention 4
Platform 6
Practice 2
Resource 5
Routine 15
Strategy 11
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 11
Students identify the meaning of root words, generate additional words using a specific root, and produce sentences that use each new word.
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This resource is a framework for teaching students the importance of monitoring their understanding while listening to a text
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In this activity students will determine the homophone vocabulary word after reading the definition.
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In this activity students produce the correct plural for a given word and use it in a sentence.
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In this activity students listen to an expository text and identify key details
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Students work together to sequence events in a narrative text.
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Students identify words that are similar and different.
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PBS

This site has free videos and lesson plans to engage students’ in listening comprehension instruction.
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During this activity students will choose affixes and base words and match the corresponding meaning for each word.
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Students identify text structure elements of an expository text.
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In this activity students will identify question types to comprehend text.
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This resource includes access to 139 pre-made Read Aloud lessons, as well as instruction targets and discussion questions to ask with each repeated reading of the text.
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Master Listening Comprehension Skills in the Classroom

Listening comprehension is one of two primary processes that contribute to successful reading comprehension. Teaching these skills early, intentionally, and concurrently with word reading, can develop strong reading comprehension.

Listening Comprehension is comprised of a set of higher- and lower- level language skills. The higher-level language skills include: inference, perspective-taking, reasoning, comprehension monitoring, and text structure knowledge. The lower-level language skills are: vocabulary, and grammatical/syntactic knowledge. Learn more and find resources aligned to each skill below.

Who We Are

Read Charlotte is a community literacy initiative that unites educators, community partners, and families to improve children’s reading from birth to third grade.

We don’t run programs. We are a capacity-building intermediary that supports local partners to apply evidence-based knowledge about effective reading instruction and interventions, high-quality execution, continuous improvement, and data analysis to improve reading outcomes.

Read Charlotte is a civic initiative of Foundation For The Carolinas.

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