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Activity 154
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Intervention 4
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Routine 15
Strategy 10
Supplemental Curriculum 7
Tool 10

Concentric Circles Discussion

Perspective Taking Reasoning

Concentric Circles Discussion

This strategy provides students with the opportunity to engage in rich, peer-to-peer, conversations with their classmates. This resource includes an overview of the strategy and clear directions to support implementation.
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Compound Word Trivia

Vocabulary

Compound Word Trivia

In this activity students pair compound words with their definitions.
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Cause and Effect Roll

Grammar + Syntax Reasoning Text Structure Vocabulary

Cause and Effect Roll

In this activity students are provided with two stacks of cause/effect cards. Students take turns matching cause and effect sentence cards.
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Cloze Encounters

Grammar + Syntax Inference Vocabulary

Cloze Encounters

In this activity students will identify missing words throughout a text.
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Learning to Infer

Comprehension Monitoring Inference Perspective Taking

Learning to Infer

This resource provides a clear lesson outline for practitioners to use to introduce and practice Inference.
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Turbo Charging Read Alouds with Listening Comprehension

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Vocabulary

Turbo Charging Read Alouds with Listening Comprehension

This resource is an activity that involves multiple readings of a selected text to promote the development of listening comprehension.
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Word Wake-Up

Vocabulary

Word Wake-Up

Sudents practice identifying synonyms for common words.
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Fiction and Nonfiction Sort

Text Structure

Fiction and Nonfiction Sort

Students determine whether a text is fiction or non fiction by reviewing text features.
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(Three) Levels of Questions

Comprehension Monitoring Grammar + Syntax Inference Perspective Taking Vocabulary

(Three) Levels of Questions

The Three Levels of Questions instructional strategy can support practitioners in providing students with an opportunity to engage with a text in increasingly complex ways.
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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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Meaning Exchanged

Grammar + Syntax Vocabulary

Meaning Exchanged

This activity engages students in identifying the meaning of words in context.
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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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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