This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
Designed as a supplemental resource, this student facing platform provides the opportunity for students to listen to texts and articles on various topics through different genres.
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.
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.
In this activity students will listen to the text and determine what the author is inferring by using information from the text and what is already known about the text.
