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.
Advances in reading science since 2000 offer important contributions to our understanding of how children learn to read and how adults reach children to read. We now know that listening comprehension plays a crucial role in students’ reading comprehension development.
The Knowledge Base offers a curated set of recent evidence-based research findings intended to help practitioners better understand listening comprehension and its connections to other literacy skills (such as word reading, reading fluency, background knowledge, and reading comprehension).
We recommend you begin on Section 1: Introduction to Listening Comprehension, and work to complete each section sequentially.
The Knowledge Base provides a free professional learning opportunity focused on listening comprehension. Throughout the nine learning modules, you will explore findings from the latest research to better understand listening comprehension and its connections to other literacy skills (such as word reading, reading fluency, background knowledge, and reading comprehension).
This course is free, but requires creating an account so that you can track course progress.
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Search the directory for instructional resources such as activities, strategies, practices, student platforms, supplemental curricula, and interventions as well as assessments to target listening comprehension in the classroom.