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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

Answer Know How

Comprehension Monitoring Inference

Answer Know How

In this activity students will identify question types to comprehend text.
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Text Structure Reflection

Reasoning Text Structure

Text Structure Reflection

Students identify text structure elements of an expository text.
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Homograph Hooks

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Homograph Hooks

In this activity students will take turns selecting a meaning or definition card matching it with a target vocabulary word.
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How to Teach Perspective Taking

Perspective Taking

How to Teach Perspective Taking

This resource provides an overview of perspective-taking and 6 general strategies that can help students engage with this critical still.
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I Spy

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

I Spy

In this activity, students will practice using expressive language to describe objects as their peers attempt to guess which item they are describing.
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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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Word Share

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Word Share

Students choose words from a text and generate a definition.
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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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PBS

PBS

This site has free videos and lesson plans to engage students’ in listening comprehension instruction.
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Classic Classifying

Text Structure Vocabulary

Classic Classifying

In this activity students identify the main idea of an expository text by categorizing the information within the text.
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Read Aloud Lessons

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Read Aloud Lessons

This resource includes access to 139 pre-made Read Aloud lessons, as well as instruction targets and discussion questions to ask with each repeated reading of the 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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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