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Reasoning

Verbal reasoning is the ability to use language to solve and analyze problems. It is sometimes described as the ability to “think with words.”
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Pre-K students
Comprehension Monitoring Reasoning Text Structure

In My Own Words

In this activity students will listen to an expository text and paraphrase what they heard
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Perspective Taking Reasoning

Concentric Circles Discussion

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich, peer-to-peer, conversations with their classmates. This resource includes an overview of the strategy and clear directions to support implementation.
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Pre-K students
Comprehension Monitoring Reasoning Text Structure

Main Idea Mania

Students will listen to a text and identify the main idea and supporting details
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Pre-K students
Perspective Taking Reasoning

Incredible Inferences

In this activity students practice making Inferences.
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Pre-K students
Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Text Structure

Retell Ring

Students discuss a fiction text using question prompts.
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Pre-K students
Perspective Taking Reasoning Text Structure

Character Connections

In this activity students compare and contrast characters in narrative/fiction texts.
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Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Reasoning Vocabulary

Tiered Questioning Approach

Students engage with scaffolded, open-ended questions that prompt them to think deeply about a text they have heard.
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Happy child little girl reading a book.
Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Active Discussion of Text Resources

This site has information, examples, and resources on how to implement active discussions after students have engaged with complex text.
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Pre-K students
Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Strategies Game

Students roll a dice and move game pieces on a gameboard that have questions for students to answer about an fiction or nonfiction text.
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Pre-K students
Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Text Structure

Story Pieces

Students take turns answering questions about story elements in 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).

Unpacking Listening Comprehension
Introduction to Listening Comprehension
Incorporating Listening Comprehension in the Classroom
Supporting Listening Comprehension at Home
Professional Learning
Academic Research

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