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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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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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Read Aloud Lessons

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning Vocabulary

Read Aloud Lessons

This resource includes access to 139 pre-made Read Aloud lessons, as well as instruction targets and discussion questions to ask with each repeated reading of the text.
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What’s the Purpose?

Inference Perspective Taking Reasoning

What’s the Purpose?

Students identify the author’s purpose after listening to a text excerpt.
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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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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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Choose and Chat PreK

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Choose and Chat PreK

This resource includes directions to support practitioners implementation of a game that asks students to use adjectives to describe an object to their peers.
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Story Element Sort

Text Structure

Story Element Sort

Students sort parts of a story into correpsonding story element categories.
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Describe and Drive

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Describe and Drive

This activity provides directions and materials for students to engage in a vocabulary building game.
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Core Knowledge Language Arts

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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Keys to the Main Idea

Reasoning Text Structure

Keys to the Main Idea

Students will determine the main idea and supporting details of an expository text.
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Perspective Taking: Science and Social Studies Connection

Perspective Taking

Perspective Taking: Science and Social Studies Connection

This resource is a framework for an activity where students explore historical, weather, or science phenomenons and analyze historical viewpoints through listening to aligned texts or audio about historical events.
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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