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Tool 10

Background Knowledge Warm-Up

Vocabulary

Background Knowledge Warm-Up

During this activity, students brainstorm what they know about a given topic. After engaging with text, they revisit their brainstorm and identify words, ideas, etc. that were used in the text.
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Comprehension Monitoring

Comprehension Monitoring

Comprehension Monitoring

This resource is a framework for teaching students the importance of monitoring their understanding while listening to a text
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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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Story Line-Up

Reasoning Text Structure

Story Line-Up

Students work together to sequence events in a narrative text.
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Does it Make Sense?

Comprehension Monitoring

Does it Make Sense?

This resource is a quick and simple activity designed to facilitate the development of listening comprehension monitoring through the use of short stories.
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Check-A-Trait

Reasoning Text Structure

Check-A-Trait

In this activity students listen to a narrative story and describes the characters
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Looking for Meaning

Vocabulary

Looking for Meaning

In this activity students will define words and generate new words for words that are often overused.
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Story Grammar

Inference Text Structure

Story Grammar

Students identify story elements within a fictiont text.
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What’s the Purpose?

Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning

What’s the Purpose?

Students identify the author’s purpose after listening to a text excerpt.
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Tiered Questioning Approach

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Reasoning Vocabulary

Tiered Questioning Approach

Students engage with scaffolded, open-ended questions that prompt them to think deeply about a text they have heard.
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Overhead Antonyms

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Overhead Antonyms

Students play a game that uses their knowledge of different words to determine if two words are antonyms.
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CUBED-3 Narrative Language Measures (NLM)- Listening Subtest

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

CUBED-3 Narrative Language Measures (NLM)- Listening Subtest

This assessment can serve as a universal screener or benchmark assessment, and a progress monitoring measure.
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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