• Media/Video Presentations
• Audiotapes
• Listening Centers
• Voice Recognition Techology

are all examples of what?

  Teacher Observation

Oral Presentation

Oral Responses

are all ways to assess what?

• Connects written and oral language
• Teaches child that what is said can be written down

When a child use sound to spell a word

example:  played is spelled "plad"

the word are is spelled "r"

What teachers and parents can do to help build oral language skills

• Exaggerating sounds
• Telling stories
• Sing/recite rhymes
• Having conversations
• Reading stories
• Affirming child's attempt at language

 Activities that help build oral language skills

Readers' theatre, picture books, puppets, dramatic plays, story retelling, debates, shared reading, read alouds, predictable books, rhymes, poems, and songs

1. Use direct listening/thinking activities
2. Read a variety of text daily
3. Have oral discussions
4. Allow students to oral read to each other

are all ways to improve what?

• Setting purpose by asking before, during and after reading questions
• Reading aloud together
• Predicting stories
• Summarizing predictions and
• Linking new information with prior information

are all what type of activities

Ways teachers can assist ELL to acquire oral language

• Present multiple opportunities of oral language to include centers, pictures, puppets, concrete objects, manipulatives
• Use collaborative/heterogeneous groups
• Encourage the new language

 Active listening to media

1. Thinking critically when listening to TV, Movies, radio programs
2. Distinguish fact from opinion
3. Evaluate writing

 A computer program that translates spoken words into written text

Helps promote literacy development of a child who has strong oral language skills but difficulty writing and spelling

The sounds "r" and "s" are often not developed until what age?

These type of assessments involve:

1. teacher observation
2. students oral response in activities
3. students oral response/presentation in a small group or class

Listening to distinguish fact from opinion

Listening to comprehend and evaluate

are 2 ways to listen... 

When listening to music, a storyteller, poetry, or a book being read aloud, the listener is listening for what?

The goal of this listening is to understand the key information.

Taking notes is one task that listeners would do when they are listening for what?