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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The Qualitative Reading Inventory (Seventh Edition) (QRI-7) assesses students’ literacy skills through graded word lists, leveled-passages, and explicit and implicit questions following oral and silent reading.
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Students identify the main idea and supporting details of paragraphs in a text.
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Playing Perspective is a strategy that gives students the opportunity to examine character’s emotions and learn about perspective.
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This tool has several instructional routines that can be used to teach listening comprehension.
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Pinna is an audio platform that provides students with screen-free audio content.
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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 Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory (Fifth Edition) measures students’ reading and language skills across 12 subtests.
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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 take turns answering questions about story elements in the text.
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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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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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