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Text Structure

An understanding of how stories are organized in narrative text and/or that certain words can signal specific expository text structure, such as cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem-solution, and sequence.
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Pre-K students
Inference Reasoning Text Structure

Expository Text Wheel

In this activity students will listen to an expository text and identify the main idea and three supporting details on a text wheel.
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Pre-K students
Text Structure Vocabulary

Classic Classifying

In this activity students identify the main idea of an expository text by categorizing the information within the text.
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Pre-K students
Text Structure

Fiction and Nonfiction Find

Students will listen to several texts and sort them based on their genre.
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Pre-K students
Text Structure

Projected Paragraphs

Students identify the main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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Pre-K students
Text Structure

Story Element Sort

Students sort parts of a story into correpsonding story element categories.
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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 Inference Perspective Taking Text Structure

Comprehension Instructional Routines

This tool has several instructional routines that can be used to teach listening comprehension.
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Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Text Structure Vocabulary

Let’s Know!

Let’s Know! is a supplemental curriculum designed to develop comprehension skills, such as vocabulary, text structure knowledge, inference, and comprehension monitoring, over the course of a school year.
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Pre-K students
Inference Reasoning Text Structure

Write Cause or Effect

Students listen to a cause or an effect and determine a potential cause or affect to accompany the information they were given.
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Pre-K students
Text Structure

Plot Plan

Students describe the plot of a narrative 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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