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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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Strategy 10
Supplemental Curriculum 7
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Read and Ask

Comprehension Monitoring Vocabulary

Read and Ask

Students take turns rolling a dice with questions to prompt discussion about a text.
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Inference Galaxy: ELCI

Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Inference Galaxy: ELCI

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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Expository Exploration

Reasoning Text Structure

Expository Exploration

In this activity, students identify the main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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Question Creation

Comprehension Monitoring Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Question Creation

Students use prompting words to create questions about a text they are reading, then discuss answers to the questions created.
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Classifying Information

Comprehension Monitoring Vocabulary

Classifying Information

In this activity students listen to a read aloud and generate and organize vocabulary on a given topic from the text.
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How to Teach Comprehension Monitoring

Comprehension Monitoring

How to Teach Comprehension Monitoring

This site provides an overview of comprehension monitoring and strategies practitioners can introduce to students as tools for monitoring their own comprehension.
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PBS

PBS

This site has free videos and lesson plans to engage students’ in listening comprehension instruction.
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Where is the Bean Bag?

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Where is the Bean Bag?

Students to use their knowledge of positional words to place a beanbag in the correct position.
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In My Own Words

Comprehension Monitoring Reasoning Text Structure

In My Own Words

In this activity students will listen to an expository text and paraphrase what they heard
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Let’s Know!

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Text Structure Vocabulary

Let’s Know!

Let’s Know! is a supplemental curriculum designed to develop comprehension skills, such as vocabulary, text structure knowledge, inference, and comprehension monitoring, over the course of a school year.
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Expository Fact Strip

Text Structure Vocabulary

Expository Fact Strip

In this activity students practice identifying facts within an expository text.
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Homograph Hitch

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Homograph Hitch

This activity engages students in identifying the meaning of common homographs.
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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