Read Charlotte Listening Comprehension Resource Center

Developing strong listening comprehension skills during, and beyond, the early elementary grades will support students’ reading comprehension ability. Learn about, teach, and assess listening comprehension using the Read Charlotte Listening Comprehension Resource Center. 

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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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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 168
Assessment 5
Intervention 4
Platform 6
Practice 2
Resource 5
Routine 15
Strategy 11
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 11
Students use a fiction text to identify story elements and retell a story.
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Students work to identify varying story elements of narrative text
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In this activity, students make predictions before listening to a text and record what they found after listening to a text.
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Students use prompts to notice when/if they struggle to comprehend a text. Students then choose a repair strategy to support their comprehension.
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Epic! Is a platform that provides students with access to over 40,000 digital texts (books, audiobooks, and videos).
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Students determine synonyms for given vocabulary words through the game of Bingo.
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Students identify main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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This site has information, examples and resources on how to implement vocabulary and morphology instruction.
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Students use their vocabulary knowledge to produce synonyms for given words.
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Students take turns completing sentences using a target word.
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Students describe the plot of a narrative text.
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This activity is a game that uses students’ vocabulary knowledge to describe and/or identify objects.
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Master Listening Comprehension Skills in the Classroom

Listening comprehension is one of two primary processes that contribute to successful reading comprehension. Teaching these skills early, intentionally, and concurrently with word reading, can develop strong reading comprehension.

Listening Comprehension is comprised of a set of higher- and lower- level language skills. The higher-level language skills include: inference, perspective-taking, reasoning, comprehension monitoring, and text structure knowledge. The lower-level language skills are: vocabulary, and grammatical/syntactic knowledge. Learn more and find resources aligned to each skill below.

Who We Are

Read Charlotte is a community literacy initiative that unites educators, community partners, and families to improve children’s reading from birth to third grade.

We don’t run programs. We are a capacity-building intermediary that supports local partners to apply evidence-based knowledge about effective reading instruction and interventions, high-quality execution, continuous improvement, and data analysis to improve reading outcomes.

Read Charlotte is a civic initiative of Foundation For The Carolinas.

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