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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

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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Choose and Chat PreK

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Choose and Chat PreK

This resource includes directions to support practitioners implementation of a game that asks students to use adjectives to describe an object to their peers.
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What is it For

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

What is it For

Students to use their knowledge of objects to describe what they are used for.
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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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Cloze Encounters

Grammar + Syntax Inference Vocabulary

Cloze Encounters

In this activity students will identify missing words throughout a text.
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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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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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Story Mapping

Inference Reasoning Text Structure

Story Mapping

Students practice identifying story elements.
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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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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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Detail Delight

Reasoning Text Structure

Detail Delight

In this activity students listen to an expository text and identify key details
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Pick a Number

Inference Perspective Taking

Pick a Number

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to think about and discuss different perspectives.
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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