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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Supplemental Curriculum
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This tool has several instructional routines that can be used to teach listening comprehension.
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Students think and discuss the voices and perspectives represented within a text.
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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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Students work to identify varying story elements of narrative text
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This site has information and resources for higher-level language instructional strategies.
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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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Students practice identifying story elements.
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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 identify story elements within a fictiont text.
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Students practice identifying the meaning of words in context.
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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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