Resource Type: Activity

No explicit instruction involved, students engaging in task, game, etc. that allows for practice of one or more component skills. Take & bake. Not designed to be used more than a few times.

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One evidence-based practice to increase students’ vocabulary, knowledge, and comprehension is a Content-Rich English Language Arts approach to instruction.
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Students identify the beginning, middle, and end of a narrative/fiction text.
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Students take turns answering questions about story elements in the text.
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In this activity students identify characteristics of characters in a narrative/fiction text.
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Students practice identifying the meaning of words in context.
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This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
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During this activity, students will listen to a passage twice, identify unknown or tricky words, and discuss what they mean.
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In this activity students will define words and generate new words for words that are often overused.
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During this activity students will listen to an Inference and take turns looking for the phrase on their gameboard that answers the Inference question.
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During this activity students will listen to a portion of the text and draw a question card.
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Advances in reading science since 2000 offer important contributions to our understanding of how children learn to read and how adults teach children to read. We now know that listening comprehension plays a crucial role in students’ listening comprehension.

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).

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