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Activity 168
Assessment 5
Intervention 4
Platform 6
Practice 2
Resource 5
Routine 15
Strategy 11
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 11
Perspective Taking

How to Teach Perspective Taking

This resource provides an overview of perspective-taking and 6 general strategies that can help students engage with this critical still.
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Pre-K students
Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Sentence-Picture Match

In this activity students are presented with picture cards and sentence cards. Students take turns matching the corresponding picture cards with sentence strips.
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Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory Fifth Edition

The Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory (Fifth Edition) measures students’ reading and language skills across 12 subtests.
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Happy child little girl reading a book.
Grammar + Syntax

Syntax and Grammar Resource Guide

This site has information, examples, and resources for teaching syntax and grammar.
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Pre-K students
Text Structure

Just the Facts

In this activity students work to identify details and facts in an expository text.
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Pre-K students
Comprehension Monitoring Vocabulary

Read and Ask

Students take turns rolling a dice with questions to prompt discussion about a text.
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Pre-K students
Grammar + Syntax Inference Vocabulary

Word Express

Students practice identifying the meaning of words in context.
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Using Complex Texts to Build Knowledge and Vocabulary

This site has information, examples, and resources for choosing complex texts to build knowledge and vocabulary.
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Pre-K students
Inference Reasoning

More Incredible Inferences

During this activity students will listen to an Inference and take turns looking for the phrase on their gameboard that answers the Inference question.
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Pre-K students
Inference Perspective Taking

Pick a Number

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to think about and discuss different perspectives.
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Pre-K students
Vocabulary

Word Web

Students will practice matching definitions with corresponding words.
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Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Core Knowledge Language Arts

The Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) curriculum builds students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through an integrated literacy approach.
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Additional Practices

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

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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