Price: 250 points or $2.5 USD
Subjects: reading,speech,expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage,readingSkills
Grades: 5,6,7
Description: Help students improve receptive language, listening comprehension, and auditory processing by identifying relevant and irrelevant information in narratives. Students read and determine which sentence does not belong, strengthening comprehension, attention, and topic maintenance skills. The activity begins with short 4-sentence narratives containing one irrelevant detail and gradually increases in difficulty until students identify one irrelevant sentence within 9-sentence narratives. This progression builds listening stamina and higher-level language skills. This resource is ideal for speech therapy, special education, social skills groups, listening comprehension instruction, and students who struggle with staying on topic, processing auditory information, or adding loosely related information during conversation. Students receive a 42-card BOOMâ„¢ deck featuring 35 multiple-choice cards with progressively challenging narratives and 5 open-ended cards to assess understanding and generalization of the skill. Bonus: Includes a 2-page printable worksheet for additional practice, homework, progress monitoring, or offline instruction.