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Activity 168
Assessment 5
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Routine 15
Strategy 11
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 11

Fiction and Nonfiction Review

Text Structure

Fiction and Nonfiction Review

Students will determine if a text is fiction or nonfiction by noticing features of the text.
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K-W-L

Comprehension Monitoring

K-W-L

In this activity students monitor their comprehension before, during, and after listening to a story using a K-W-L chart.
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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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Qualitative Reading Inventory (Seventh Edition)

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

Qualitative Reading Inventory (Seventh Edition)

The Qualitative Reading Inventory (Seventh Edition) (QRI-7) assesses students’ literacy skills through graded word lists, leveled-passages, and explicit and implicit questions following oral and silent reading.
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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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Pun Fun

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Pun Fun

Students discuss the meanings of sentences that use figurative language.
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Looking for Meaning

Vocabulary

Looking for Meaning

In this activity students will define words and generate new words for words that are often overused.
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Character Connections

Perspective Taking Reasoning Text Structure

Character Connections

In this activity students compare and contrast characters in narrative/fiction texts.
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Five Turns

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Five Turns

This resource is a framework for facilitating simple conversations with five exchanges.This resource is designed for the use of practitioners but can be adapted to support families at home.
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Compare-A-Story

Reasoning Text Structure

Compare-A-Story

Students compare and contrast narrative texts to determine similarities and difference among the texts’ story elements.
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MORE

Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

MORE

MORE, created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s READS Lab, is a supplemental curriculum designed build important literacy skills such as students’ language and schemas through exploring science and social studies topics.
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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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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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