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The common core standard I chose to do my expanded toolbox on is from the First Grade standard:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1
"Ask and answer questions about key details in a text."

I chose this standard because it is relevant to where my current students are and I can use these resources with my students. My students are currently working on answering "WH'" comprehension questions after they are read a story.

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Boomcards are a wonderful tool to use in the Distance Learning format as well as in-person. They are highly interactive and customizable for any grade level or topic. Students participate by moving manipulatives, playing sounds that guide phonemic awareness, and gain typing practice. These activities record data for teachers to use to track progress for reports and IEP's.

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Boom Cards transform the classroom into an interactive, gamified learning experience with data to track progress and identify learning gaps.

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This digital "Reading COmprehension" activity provides an auditory feature to help students with the reading portion, and then has questions to measure comprehension.

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Short stories to practice comprehension skills, virtually accessible!

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Reading Comprehension Activity, free on Teachers Pay Teachers

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Inside you will find:
* 6 Read and Color pages.
* 4 Read and Draw
These comprehension activities are ideal for students in kindergarten and first grade. Use this as a listening comprehension activities for your kindergarten students, or have your first graders read the passages and work independently.
These are perfect for literacy centers, independent work, morning work, fast finisher, homework and more.
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Reading Comprehension Activities (THE BUNDLE)

This set goes well with my:
Reading Comprehension Check (The Bundle)
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Inside you will find: * 6 Read and Color pages. * 4 Read and Draw These comprehension activities are ideal for students in kindergarten and first grade. Use this as a listening comprehension activities for your kindergarten students, or have your first graders read the passages and work independent...

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Introduction to WH questions. This activity will help students learn what kind of information is being requested.

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Are you looking for a fun, easy way to target WHO questions in speech-language therapy? If so, then this product is for you! This product includes 1 FREE worksheet of WHO questions. Your students will love working on WHO questions while using dot markers or colored pencils to color their answers. This print and go worksheet includes 3 foils (picture and wording) to use with those students who need visual cues.

If you like this product, you can check out the FULL VERSION, which includes 2 worksheets for each of the following WH questions: WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY, by clicking here. Dot Artsy with Pictures - WH Edition - Articulation Activities

You may be interested in my FREE SAMPLE of Dot Artsy Language Edition, which includes Categories, Associations, and Negatives. You can download by clicking here. Dot "Artsy" with Pictures - Language Edition - FREE SAMPLE

And, the full version can be found by clicking here. Dot "Artsy" Worksheets - Language Edition - Categories/Associations/Negatives

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Are you looking for a fun, easy way to target WHO questions in speech-language therapy? If so, then this product is for you! This product includes 1 FREE worksheet of WHO questions. Your students will love working on WHO questions while using dot markers or colored pencils to color their answers.

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Retelling a Story Using Comprehension Cubes

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Reading Tips for Stronger Vocabulary and Comprehension | NEA

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Free reading comprehension worksheets

Use these printable worksheets to improve reading comprehension. Over 100 free children's stories followed by comprehension exercises, as well as worksheets focused on specific comprehension topics (main idea, sequencing, etc).

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Free printable Reading Comprehension worksheets for grade 1 to grade 5. These reading worksheets will help kids practice their comprehension skills. Compliments of K5 Learning

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These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but have difficulty understanding what they read-and they're beneficial for all students.

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When we think of reading issues, we often imagine children who struggle to decode the letters in text and turn them into spoken language. This type of struggling reader has a very difficult time figuring out what many of the words are and has poor phonological (speech-sound) skills. However, there are also many students who sound like they're reading beautifully but have difficulty with understanding vocabulary and figurative language, inferencing, verbal reasoning, grammatical development, and oral expression.

As children get older, if they are decoding text well we assume they are reading well. Once a person learns to decode, reading comprehension becomes more about language comprehension and focus. At this transition, starting around third grade, teachers may begin to notice some students who decode text fluently but are not understanding.

Since this type of struggling reader is less noticeable than ones who have difficulty decoding, they often slip under the radar until they begin to fail standardized state comprehension tests. Even then, their issues may go undetected for a long time, resulting in middle and high school students who sound like they're reading but understand nothing that they have read.

These struggling readers should be targeted for remediation-the earlier the better. However, remediation consisting of practice passages and questions may be ineffective as it focuses too narrowly on text-based skills.

Supporting Students Who Struggle With Comprehension

Here are five strategies to try out with students who read fluently but struggle to comprehend what they're reading.

1. Target overall comprehension of language: Recent research reveals that reading comprehension difficulties may stem from an underlying oral language weakness that exists from early childhood, before reading is even taught. It turns out that students who have poor reading comprehension also often understand fewer spoken words and less of what they hear, and have worse spoken grammar. So, to address reading comprehension deficits effectively, educators may have to use an approach that teaches vocabulary, thinking skills, and comprehension first in spoken language and then in reading and written language.

2. Teach vocabulary: Because students with poor comprehension often have poor vocabulary skills and understand less of what they hear, it's helpful to teach the meanings of new words through the use of multisensory strategies like graphic organizers, pictures, and mnemonics. Improving their overall language skills increases the likelihood that they will understand the words they encounter in written text. Since it is impossible to know every word one might encounter, students should be taught about the different types of context clues and how to use them to determine the meaning of unknown words.

Discussing or activating prior knowledge,

Developing questions while reading,

Connecting what they are reading to another text, something they have seen, or something they have experienced,

Visualizing or picturing what they are reading,

Making predictions about what will come next in the text,

Looking back for keywords and rereading in order to clarify or answer questions, and

Thinking aloud to model the strategies and thought processes needed for comprehension.

3. Teach thinking strategies: Once students have the vocabulary to be able to make it through a text, they often struggle with the complex thinking or sustained attention required to keep up with all of the important details and to access information that is implied but not directly stated. Teachers can instruct students on cognitive strategies they can use. Many common text reading strategies-such as annotation, SQ3R, and the KWL chart -make use of these thinking strategies, including:

Students can learn and then use the strategies that work best for them depending on the text they're reading. Pulling deeper meaning out of text through the use of thinking strategies can be beneficial not just to reading comprehension but also to writing.

Questioner, who poses questions about parts of the lesson, discussion, or text that are unclear or confusing, or to help make connections with previously learned material.

Summarizer, who sums up each important point or detail from the lesson, discussion, or text.

Clarifier, who tries to address the Questioner's issues and make sure that parts they found confusing are clear to others.

Predictor, who makes a prediction about what will happen next based on what was presented, discussed, or read,

4. Have students practice reciprocal teaching: Once taught, cognitive strategies can be consistently practiced and implemented through the use of reciprocal teaching, which encourages students to take a leadership role in their learning and begin to think about their thought process while listening or reading. Teachers can use reciprocal teaching during class discussions, with text that is read aloud, and later with text that is read in groups. The students should rotate between the following roles:

5. Directly teach comprehension skills: Students should be directly taught comprehension skills such as sequencing, story structure using the plot mountain, how to make an inference and draw a conclusion, and the different types of figurative language. Students should have the opportunity to first use the skills with text that they hear the teacher read aloud, and then later with text that they read independently at their own level.

The comprehension skills and strategies listed above can be used with the whole class, as they closely align with reading and language arts standards for elementary and middle school students. Teachers can help students select reading material with vocabulary that matches their current ability levels so that within a classroom, students are reading text and working on vocabulary at levels that are accessible for each of them.

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Students need to think while they are reading. By using modeling, coached practice, and reflection, you can teach your students strategies to help them think while they read and build their comprehension.

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English is a very important language for individuals who wish to achieve professional and personal goals particularly in a country where English is the most spoken language. As a language, it also acts as a bridge between different countries, their people and cultures. One of the most difficult aspects of learning a new language is being able to speak comfortably and confidently with native speakers. Children and students all the more face different difficulties and problems with learning English. With the increasing population of children learning English as a second language (ESL students) in the US and their teachers also face problems supporting each student's unique learning needs.

Fortunately, technology with its incredible ability to advance and support in education has empowered ESL students to use, practice, and perfect their English skills. Technology accelerates the acquisition of phonics, increases vocabulary, improves reading comprehension skills, and encourages language development. That is the reason why teachers and parents are very eager to integrate technology into education. It has many benefits especially when it comes to learning new vocabulary and developing
skills necessary to thrive in this technology-rich society.

Here are some excellent technological tools and apps that can help improve ESL students language learning capabilities:
1. Infographics:
Infographics or information graphics are found everywhere in advertisements, newspapers, and now has penetrated itself into education methodologies. This tool helps students to understand the concept of a word or passage using both image and text. ESL students can use this tool to understand and communicate what they understood in different models. Some easy to use infographic tools include Easel.ly, Piktochart, & more.
2. Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling helps ESL students by integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Proficient digital tools such as Puppet Pals, Book creator & VoiceThread allows the ESL students to create and share materials through the use of audio, text, and visual formats. It helps improve their pronunciation and vocabulary skills.
3. ESL Library
ESL library is a really effective tool and is also the most comprehensive online teaching resource available with dynamic lesson plans and materials. This online tool is based on the subscription model where the ESL students can access a breakdown of lessons by topic, such as business in English, role-playing, writing in English, holidays, grammar stories and more.
4. Memrise
Memrise is a very powerful language learning tool that offers courses that are framed by teachers who are experts in language training. This app offers many mnemonic tools to remember and learn words that are difficult to understand and pronounce. With a collaborative model of learning, you can share your thoughts and views with other similar language learners within this app.
5. WhizRead
For those children and learners who speak English as a second language, WhizRead would be the perfect digital companion. This iPad app makes use of multisensory tools that combine audio, images, text, speech, videos and natural language processing techniques to help ESL students grasp the context and meaning behind the text in a more engaging independent way.
6. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
This is a very popular listening lab for English as second language learners. It has been designed and created with a specific goal in mind - to provide a very easy and engaging platform for readers who have difficulties in learning and speaking the English language. With different levels of learning exercises, aspirants can enhance their listening and pronunciation skills.

Whether you are a child learning English as your first language or an adult who is trying to improve your English language skills, these tools are fantastic. Using technology and integrating it with learning activities provides a more effective way for ESL students to enhance their language proficiency levels.

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