There are three types of audio students will be listening to while taking the Listening Comprehension benchmark assessment.
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Dialogue |
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Two people talking. Either two children, one child, and one adult, or two adults. Each Dialogue type passage has one question: main idea or an inference. |
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Narrative |
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Either descriptive or explanatory factual information about a topic of interest to school students, or narrative fiction. It sounds something like an audiobook - a written text read aloud. Each Narrative type passage has there questions: main idea, specific detail, and inference. |
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Teacher Talk |
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Descriptive or explanatory factual information about a topic of interest to school students. It sounds like a teacher presenting information to a class in real-time. Each Teacher Talk passage type has three questions: main idea, specific detail, and inference. |