One evidence-based practice to increase students’ vocabulary, knowledge, and comprehension is a Content-Rich English Language Arts approach to instruction.
The Qualitative Reading Inventory (Seventh Edition) (QRI-7) assesses students’ literacy skills through graded word lists, leveled-passages, and explicit and implicit questions following oral and silent reading.
This resource requires the following modification to explicitly target listening comprehension: shift the burden of decoding/encoding onto the educator (i.e., the educator should read/write instead of the student(s)).
