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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

Word Web

Vocabulary

Word Web

Students will practice matching definitions with corresponding words.
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Story Book

Text Structure

Story Book

Students sequence events in a fiction text.
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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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Word Filler

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Word Filler

Students learn target vocabulary words and select the sentence that best suits each word.
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Listening Comprehension Observation Tool

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Listening Comprehension Observation Tool

This resource is a tool for conducting observations to assess and improve teacher-student and student-student interactions, with a focus on open-ended questions and extended conversations to promote the development of student listening comprehension skill.
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Compound Word Trivia

Vocabulary

Compound Word Trivia

In this activity students pair compound words with their definitions.
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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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Perspective Taking: Science and Social Studies Connection

Perspective Taking

Perspective Taking: Science and Social Studies Connection

This resource is a framework for an activity where students explore historical, weather, or science phenomenons and analyze historical viewpoints through listening to aligned texts or audio about historical events.
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Let’s Know!

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Text Structure Vocabulary

Let’s Know!

Let’s Know! is a supplemental curriculum designed to develop comprehension skills, such as vocabulary, text structure knowledge, inference, and comprehension monitoring, over the course of a school year.
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Meaning Map

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Meaning Map

This activity engages students in describing target words and providing examples of the words.
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Up with Words

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Up with Words

Students define and generate words for synonyms that are often overused.
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Monitor and Menu

Comprehension Monitoring

Monitor and Menu

In this activity students will evaluate their understanding of a text they have heard. If students are having difficulty with understanding they will choose a “fix up” strategy.
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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