Inference

Inference is information not expressed explicitly by oral or written text but derived by the listener or reader on the basis of their knowledge.
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This resource is an activity that involves multiple readings of a selected text to promote the development of listening comprehension.
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Students take turns answering questions about story elements in the text.
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Students identify the author’s purpose after listening to a text excerpt.
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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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The Fishbowl Strategy can be used by practitioners to guide instructional/scaffolded conversations. This resource provides an overview of the strategy as well as a planning guide to support implementation.
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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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The Lexile Framework for Listening measures students’ listening skills using audio passages and comprehension questions that assess the students’ ability to identify the main idea, supporting details, and make inferences.
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Students work to answer questions about, and identify story elements of, a fiction text.
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STARI is a literacy intervention designed to support adolescent struggling readers through high-interest and engaging texts, topics, and conversation that teach essential literacy skills such as decoding, fluency and comprehension strategies.
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This resource includes access to 139 pre-made Read Aloud lessons, as well as instruction targets and discussion questions to ask with each repeated reading of the text.
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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’ listening 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).

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