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Activity 154
Assessment 5
Intervention 4
Platform 6
Practice 2
Resource 5
Routine 15
Strategy 10
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 10

Analogy Soccer

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Analogy Soccer

In this activity students will examine analogies and determine their meaning. Students will complete analogies using the correct word.
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Sentence-Picture Match

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Sentence-Picture Match

In this activity students are presented with picture cards and sentence cards. Students take turns matching the corresponding picture cards with sentence strips.
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Category Creations

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Category Creations

In this activity students will categorize words based on their meaning. To modify this activity the teacher can create the categories along with the vocabulary words.
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Transportation Key Sort: Pre-K

Vocabulary

Transportation Key Sort: Pre-K

Students categorize transportation words into categories of air, water, and land.
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Word Filler

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Word Filler

Students learn target vocabulary words and select the sentence that best suits each word.
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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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Pun Fun

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Pun Fun

Students discuss the meanings of sentences that use figurative language.
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Choose and Chat: K-1

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Choose and Chat: K-1

This activity is a game that uses students’ vocabulary knowledge to describe and/or identify objects.
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Same and Different

Vocabulary

Same and Different

Students identify similarities and differences of target vocabulary words based on their meaning.
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IXL

Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

IXL

IXL is a comprehensive personalized learning platform that supports PK-12 math, language arts, science and social studies instruction. IXL has embedded diagnostic assessments that practitioners can use to identify students’ learning needs.
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Turbo Charging Read Alouds with Listening Comprehension

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Vocabulary

Turbo Charging Read Alouds with Listening Comprehension

This resource is an activity that involves multiple readings of a selected text to promote the development of listening comprehension.
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Retell Recap

Text Structure

Retell Recap

Students retell a narrative story by identifying key story elements.
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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