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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This path is for educators looking for resources they can immediately begin using to focus on building students’ listening comprehension skills without changing how their instructional minutes are currently distributed or (financial) resources are allocated. 

This pathway is for educators looking to transform their literacy practice to include an explicit focus on listening comprehension and assessment. These resources likely require adjusting the distribution of instructional minutes and additional financial resources.

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.

The Research aka
Knowledge Base

Advances in reading science since 2000 offer important contributions to our understanding of how children learn to read and how adults teach children to read. We now know that listening comprehension plays a crucial role in students’ reading comprehension.

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).

Search the Materials Directory

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
In this activity students use their knowledge of different words to describe the functions of different objects
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This resource is a framework for facilitating simple conversations with five exchanges.This resource is designed for the use of practitioners but can be adapted to support families at home.
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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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This activity is a game that uses students’ vocabulary knowledge to describe and/or identify objects.
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Students categorize transportation words into categories of air, water, and land.
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Students will practice matching definitions with corresponding words.
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In this activity students will listen to an expository text and identify key details
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This activity engages students in selecting words that describe different pictures.
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Students work to answer questions about, and identify story elements of, a fiction text.
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In this activity students listen to a read aloud and generate and organize vocabulary on a given topic from the text.
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Students practice sequencing and retelling a fiction story.
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Students identify text structure elements of an expository text.
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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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