The Fishbowl Strategy can be used by practitioners to guide instructional/scaffolded conversations. This resource provides an overview of the strategy as well as a planning guide to support implementation.
Designed as a supplemental resource, this student facing platform provides the opportunity for students to listen to texts and articles on various topics through different genres.
Inference Galaxy is a fully automated personalized learning platform that explicitly supports students’ vocabulary development and inference-making skills through assessment and instruction.
This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
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.
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.
The Lexile Framework for Listening measures students’ listening skills using audio passages and comprehension questions that assess the students’ ability to identify the main idea, supporting details, and make inferences.