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
During this activity students will take turns identifying the meaning of a prefix or suffix.
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This activity engages students in discussion about what target words mean in context and how those words relate to the student(s).
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Students identify text structure elements of an expository text.
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Inference Galaxy is a fully automated personalized learning platform that explicitly supports students’ vocabulary development and inference-making skills through assessment and instruction.
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Students identify elements of an expository/nonfiction text.
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Students categorize transportation words into categories of air, water, and land.
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This site has information, examples, and resources for choosing complex texts to build knowledge and vocabulary.
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In this actvity students will identify matching antonyms (eg., hot/cold).
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In this activity students describe a picture, without saying what the picture is. The other students participating will use their knowledge of the words used to describe the picture to guess what it is.
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MORE, created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s READS Lab, is a supplemental curriculum designed build important literacy skills such as students’ language and schemas through exploring science and social studies topics.
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In this activity students examine the meaning of vocabulary words.
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This site has information, examples and resources on how to implement vocabulary and morphology instruction.
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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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