What to Teach with Oral Language Oral language skills are best taught when combined with instruction in the following four reading components. As you are helping students develop their oral language skills, also provide instruction in these components. Phonemic Awareness: The oral language phonological sub-skill overlaps with the skills students learn during phonemic awareness instruction….
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What Does Not Work for Oral Language Instruction So far, I have provided you with a small list of sample activities that will help students develop their oral language skills. If you are guided by the instructional strategies for oral language development, as well as the sub-skills that students need to learn, you can find…
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The Top Two Strategies for Teaching Oral Language Development The Number One Strategy: Discussion Remember, the definition of oral language development is learning how language is used in a particular event, setting, context, or culture. People do this by experiencing a wide variety of language uses, analyzing how people communicate, identifying patterns, relating language usage…
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What Works for Oral Language Instruction Now that you have an understanding of the sub-skills for oral language, you have many clues for the types of strategies and activities to help students develop oral language. In brief, any activities that engage students in those sub-skills will contribute to oral language. If you use those activities…
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Connection to Reading The National Reading Panel had very little to say about oral language, mainly because it is oral. But if we think about how we use oral language skills, what those skills are for, we see that they transfer directly to making meaning from text, i.e., reading. Oral language skills focus on learning…
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5 Skills of Oral Language Oral Language is not a single skill but a collection of five sub-skills: Sub-skill Description Vocabulary learning and using the names of things, ideas and concepts, processes, etc.; learning to differentiate between idiomatic, local definitions and universally accepted definitions; learning to identify, use, and interpret connotative meanings of words and…
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What Is Oral Language Development? Oral Language Development is the most sophisticated of all the reading skills. It is the first skill that children begin learning, and it is the one skill that people continue learning throughout life—whether or not they know it! Definition The ability to understand how language is used in a particular…
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