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Filter by listening comprehension skill, grade, and/or standard (NC ELA Anchor Standard an/or NC PK Early Foundations for Early Learning and Development), to find resources to target listening comprehension in the classroom. 

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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

Where is the Bean Bag?

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Where is the Bean Bag?

Students to use their knowledge of positional words to place a beanbag in the correct position.
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Compound Word Flip Book

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Compound Word Flip Book

In this activity students will identify the meaning of compound words.
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Concentric Circles Discussion

Perspective Taking Reasoning

Concentric Circles Discussion

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich, peer-to-peer, conversations with their classmates. This resource includes an overview of the strategy and clear directions to support implementation.
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Sequins Trains

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Sequins Trains

Students practice using complex sentences by creating stories from pictures.
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Ready, Set, Talk

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Ready, Set, Talk

This resource is a strategy to help educators facilitate robust conversations with students in early grades.
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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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Fishing for Plurals

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Fishing for Plurals

In this activity students produce the correct plural for a given word and use it in a sentence.
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Know or No

Vocabulary

Know or No

In this activity students examine the meaning of vocabulary words.
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Worn-Out Words

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Worn-Out Words

Students generate alternatives for words that are often overused.
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Higher Level Language Skills Resources

Comprehension Monitoring Inference Perspective Taking

Higher Level Language Skills Resources

This site has information and resources for higher-level language instructional strategies.
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Anticipation Sort

Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Anticipation Sort

In this activity students will identify whether the information in a short text (1-2 sentences), is true or false.
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Scaffolds for Syntax Development

Grammar + Syntax

Scaffolds for Syntax Development

In this routine teachers engage in play-based interactions with students to foster syntactic development
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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