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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

Story Mapping

Inference Reasoning Text Structure

Story Mapping

Students practice identifying story elements.
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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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Character Compare

Perspective Taking Text Structure

Character Compare

In this activity students will compare/contrast characters in fiction texts.
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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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Pun Fun

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Pun Fun

Students discuss the meanings of sentences that use figurative language.
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Category Tag

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Category Tag

In this activity students will generate words in various categories.
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Character Mapping through Dialogue

Perspective Taking

Character Mapping through Dialogue

This activity encourages students to develop perspective taking skills by analyzing character mental states throughout a Reader’s Theater Script.
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Connect, Extend Challenge

Comprehension Monitoring Reasoning

Connect, Extend Challenge

The resource provides an overview of the Connect, Extend, Challenge instructional strategy as well as a planning guide for implementation.
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Key Sort

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Key Sort

In this activity students examine the meaning of vocabulary words.
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Question Creation

Comprehension Monitoring Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Question Creation

Students use prompting words to create questions about a text they are reading, then discuss answers to the questions created.
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Visualization

Comprehension Monitoring

Visualization

Students practice visualizing when listening to a story
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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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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