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Activity 154
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Intervention 4
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Routine 15
Strategy 10
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 10

Cause and Effect Organizer

Inference Reasoning

Cause and Effect Organizer

In this activity students will identify cause and effect relationships throughout a read aloud. This activity can be modified so students are only engaging with oral text responding through discussion.
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Inference Galaxy: TeLCI

Inference Vocabulary

Inference Galaxy: TeLCI

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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Book Look

Text Structure

Book Look

Students identify features of an expository text.
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Story Grammar Yammer

Inference Text Structure

Story Grammar Yammer

Students work to identify varying story elements of narrative text
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Learn to listen, listen to learn

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Learn to listen, listen to learn

The Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich discussion about a topic.
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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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Compound Word Hunt

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Compound Word Hunt

In this activity students will identify the meaning of compound words.
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Word Why

Grammar + Syntax Reasoning Vocabulary

Word Why

Students answer questions that use target vocabulary, then share their reason for their answer by explaining the meaning of the target word(s).
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Sequence-A-Story

Reasoning Text Structure

Sequence-A-Story

Students practice sequencing and retelling a fiction story.
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What’s the Big Idea

Text Structure

What’s the Big Idea

Students identify main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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Affix Action

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Affix Action

This activity engages students in identifying and defining affix words when provided with a sentence.
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Compare-A-Character

Perspective Taking Text Structure

Compare-A-Character

In this activity students compare and contrast characters from narrative texts
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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