In this activity students will categorize words based on their meaning. To modify this activity the teacher can create the categories along with the vocabulary words.
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.
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.
In this activity students will listen to the text and determine what the author is inferring by using information from the text and what is already known about the text.
