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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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Root-O!

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Root-O!

Students identify the meaning of root words, generate additional words using a specific root, and produce sentences that use each new word.
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Compare Extraordinaire

Vocabulary

Compare Extraordinaire

in this activity students will utilize a Venn Diagram to compare similarities and differences of the meaning of words.
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Instructor Think Aloud

Comprehension Monitoring

Instructor Think Aloud

This resource includes information on how to use think-alouds as an instructional strategy, as well as a planning guide to support practitioners as they plan lessons to include think-alouds.
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Pinna

Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Pinna

Pinna is an audio platform that provides students with screen-free audio content.
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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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Word Generation Elementary

Grammar + Syntax Reasoning Vocabulary

Word Generation Elementary

Word Generation Elementary supports students’ vocabulary and knowledge development through an integrated literacy approach.
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Text Structure Reflection

Reasoning Text Structure

Text Structure Reflection

Students identify text structure elements of an expository text.
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Homograph Hoorah!

Vocabulary

Homograph Hoorah!

In this activity students will take turns selecting a meaning card and matching the corresponding homograph.
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Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

Developed by the University of Oxford, The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) is a language intervention designed to support early elementary students’ vocabulary, listening, and narrative skill development.
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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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Different Perspectives

Perspective Taking

Different Perspectives

This resource is a framework for teaching perspective taking through narrative texts using a story map and explicit instruction of mental state vocabulary. Students identify key points in the story and discuss characters’ thoughts and feelings throughout the narrative.
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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