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.
In this activity students will identify cause and effect relationships throughout a read aloud. This activity can be modified so students are only engaging with oral text responding through discussion.
This resource includes information on how to use think-alouds as an instructional strategy, as well as a planning guide to support practitioners as they plan lessons to include think-alouds.