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).

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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Assessment 5
Intervention 4
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Practice 2
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Routine 15
Strategy 11
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 11
This resource provides a clear lesson outline for practitioners to use to introduce and practice Inference.
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Students explore the meaning of, and things associated with, different words.
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Students identify the main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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The Three Levels of Questions instructional strategy can support practitioners in providing students with an opportunity to engage with a text in increasingly complex ways.
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Developed by the University of Oxford, The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) is a language intervention designed to support early elementary students’ vocabulary, listening, and narrative skill development.
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During this activity students will listen to a portion of the text and draw a question card.
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ListenWise is a learning platform that teaches engaging content and language through a multi-modal integrated approach using podcasts and videos.
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Word Generation Weekly is an interdisciplinary curriculum that targets language development.
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.Students are presented with sentence parts and tasked with creating meaningful and silly sentences.
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This site has information, examples, and resources on how to implement active discussions after students have engaged with complex text.
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This activity includes directions and materials for a game that engages students in sentence production and word isolation.
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The Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich discussion about a topic.
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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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