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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

Head, Heart Conscience

Comprehension Monitoring Perspective Taking

Head, Heart Conscience

The Head, Heart, and Conscience Strategy asks students to consider what they know, how they feel about a particular topic/event, and how others feel/are impacted by the topic/event.
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Summarizing

Inference Text Structure

Summarizing

Students identify the main idea and supporting details of paragraphs in a text.
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Distinguishing Details

Comprehension Monitoring Reasoning Text Structure

Distinguishing Details

In this activity students will listen to an expository text and identify key details
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Word Wake-Up

Vocabulary

Word Wake-Up

Sudents practice identifying synonyms for common words.
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Cloze Encounters

Grammar + Syntax Inference Vocabulary

Cloze Encounters

In this activity students will identify missing words throughout a text.
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Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory Fifth Edition

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory Fifth Edition

The Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory (Fifth Edition) measures students’ reading and language skills across 12 subtests.
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Character Mapping through Dialogue

Perspective Taking

Character Mapping through Dialogue

This activity encourages students to develop perspective taking skills by analyzing character mental states throughout a Reader’s Theater Script.
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Story Line-Up

Reasoning Text Structure

Story Line-Up

Students work together to sequence events in a narrative text.
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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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Character Characteristics

Perspective Taking Reasoning Text Structure

Character Characteristics

In this activity, students will select a character from a text and use their knowledge of the character to respond to questions.
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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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Describe and Drive

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Describe and Drive

This activity provides directions and materials for students to engage in a vocabulary building game.
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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