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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 154
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Routine 15
Strategy 10
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Pick a Number

Inference Perspective Taking

Pick a Number

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to think about and discuss different perspectives.
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Using Complex Texts to Build Knowledge and Vocabulary

Using Complex Texts to Build Knowledge and Vocabulary

This site has information, examples, and resources for choosing complex texts to build knowledge and vocabulary.
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Makie-and-Check-A- Prediction

Comprehension Monitoring

Makie-and-Check-A- Prediction

In this activity, students make predictions before listening to a text and record what they found after listening to a text.
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Strategies Game

Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Strategies Game

Students roll a dice and move game pieces on a gameboard that have questions for students to answer about an fiction or nonfiction text.
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Learning to Infer

Comprehension Monitoring Inference Perspective Taking

Learning to Infer

This resource provides a clear lesson outline for practitioners to use to introduce and practice Inference.
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What’s the Big Idea

Text Structure

What’s the Big Idea

Students identify main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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Four Corners

Perspective Taking

Four Corners

The Four Corners Activity is a way for students to demonstrate their opinion on a topic, statement, etc. This resource provides an overview of the activity and planning guide to support implementation.
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Main Idea Mania

Comprehension Monitoring Reasoning Text Structure

Main Idea Mania

Students will listen to a text and identify the main idea and supporting details
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Read Aloud Observation Tool

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Read Aloud Observation Tool

This tool includes several observation forms for practitioners to utilize to record the execution of lessons that target listening comprehension components.
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Story Pieces

Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Text Structure

Story Pieces

Students take turns answering questions about story elements in the text.
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Category Blast Off

Vocabulary

Category Blast Off

In this activity students use their knowledge of different words to describe the functions of different objects
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Fiction and Nonfiction Review

Text Structure

Fiction and Nonfiction Review

Students will determine if a text is fiction or nonfiction by noticing features of the text.
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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).

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Additional Practices

Shared Book Reading
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Instructional/Scaffolded Conversations
Content-Rich/Cross Content ELA