Oral+Language+Resources

Here are some internet resources that you might want to check out. [[image:j0430773.jpg width="290" height="216" align="right"]]
[|ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CONTINUUM]

[|Children' Oral Language Development] check out this article from Reading Rockets on oral language development. Oral Language: [|Expanding Your Child's Vocabularyt] check out this article from Reading Rockets on oral language development.

[|How do I rate a child' oral language development.] this resource may help you with "Look-fors" with your students' oral language development

**Games and Circle Time Activites that Build Receptive and Expressive Language**

 * These activites can build children's vocabulary, increase their communication skills and prepare them to adapt what they know about oral language as they explore written language.

Text Talk A great Way to develop Vocabulary and Oral Language
From: Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck, M. Mc Keown and L. Kucan (2002)
 * 1) Pick three words per text (reand ans re-visit the books at least 2-3X during the week.
 * 2) Direct Intruction occcurs after the text has been read aloud and discussed. Introduce the word by contextualizing it from the text.
 * 3) Children repeat the word aloud with the teacher.
 * 4) Explain the meaning of the word.
 * 5) Provide examples of word use in other contexts.
 * 6) Children use the word by providing their own connections and examples.
 * 7) Follow the same steps for each word.
 * 8) Have students demonstrate the word meaning through facial expressions or actions.

[|Building Oral Language] This site give you a look inside a Kindergarten classroom where the teacher Kindergarten teacher Cindy Wilson help students make connections with their own -- and each other's -- linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

Oral Language Activities that Develop Reading Readiness These activities can build children's vocabulary, increase their communication skills and prepare them to adapt what they know about oral language as they explore written language.

[|**Action Stories**] · Children love actively participating in these narratives, chants, and games. [|**Storytelling**] · You don't need a book to promote reading readiness and a love of stories!

[|**Songs for Young Children**] · Music provides a most enjoyable way to build language facility.

Songs and Fingerplays
· As children combine these chants and songs with actions, they establish firm links between language, its use, and its meaning.

[|Fingerplays] - this site highlights the values of using fingerplays with young children.

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[|Fingerplays, Rhymes, Action Song]s this is a preschool site however there are a lot of fingerplays and rhymes you could use for oral language development.

[|Fingerplays] -- organized by the month. Most are piggyback songs.

[|**Fingerplays**]

[|**Finger Puppet Books**] and [|**Puppets**] · Puppets offer children wonderful opportunities to explore the meaning of concepts,story plots, and characters, facilitating future reading comprehension.

· [|Group Words] · [|How Do You Use It?] · [|I Did / What Did You Do?] · [|Stuffed Animal Mystery] · [|Who Stole the Cookies?]
 * Games and Circle Time Activites that Build Receptive and Expressive Language **