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Activity 154
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Intervention 4
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Practice 2
Resource 5
Routine 15
Strategy 10
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 10

Guess Who?

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Guess Who?

In this activity students describe a picture, without saying what the picture is. The other students participating will use their knowledge of the words used to describe the picture to guess what it is.
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Know or No

Vocabulary

Know or No

In this activity students examine the meaning of vocabulary words.
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Tiered Questioning Approach

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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Category Tag

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Category Tag

In this activity students will generate words in various categories.
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Compare Extraordinaire

Vocabulary

Compare Extraordinaire

in this activity students will utilize a Venn Diagram to compare similarities and differences of the meaning of words.
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Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Sort

Inference Perspective Taking Text Structure

Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Sort

This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
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Homograph Hitch

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Homograph Hitch

This activity engages students in identifying the meaning of common homographs.
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Homophone Puzzle

Vocabulary

Homophone Puzzle

In this activity students will determine the homophone vocabulary word after reading the definition.
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Learn to listen, listen to learn

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Learn to listen, listen to learn

The Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich discussion about a topic.
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Listening Comprehension Observation Tool

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Listening Comprehension Observation Tool

This resource is a tool for conducting observations to assess and improve teacher-student and student-student interactions, with a focus on open-ended questions and extended conversations to promote the development of student listening comprehension skill.
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Word Dissect

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Word Dissect

Students examine the meaning of words and their affixes.
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Affix Game

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Affix Game

During this activity students will take turns identifying the meaning of a prefix or suffix.
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The Research aka
Knowledge Base

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).

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Additional Practices

Shared Book Reading
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Instructional/Scaffolded Conversations
Content-Rich/Cross Content ELA