Not exact matches
Much later, as a graduate student at Northwestern University's School of Speech, I
began to develop some tools for investigating intersections between language and action, angling toward such forms of aesthetic expression as
oral reading, acting and directing in the theatre, and storytelling.
Learn how to
read this book with your toddler in a way that strengthens important pre-reading skills like letter knowledge,
oral language and
beginning writing.
Once you have passed through your fertile window and can confirm ovulation has occurred, you may discontinue taking
oral readings until the
beginning of your next cycle.
Resources are; Stimulus Response Routine; Simultaneous
Oral Spelling card; Look and cover routine for irregular spellings; The Dictation Routine; The
reading and spelling card routine; Cursive writing board; Refresh board; Vowel board; The
Beginning Middle and End Board.
Although the kindergarten program provides a foundation in emergent literacy and
oral language development, the core of Emerald's early
reading program
begins with grade 1.
Reading and writing are integrated at the Pre-K level as these processes are closely linked for the youngest students who are just
beginning to learn the relationship between print and
oral language.
Nevertheless, recent studies have
begun to question whether incidental instruction through book
reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's
oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book
reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic
reading, an interactive
reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.
The Slosson
Oral Reading Test (SORT) was administered before instruction
began and after students completed the program.
Beginning readers have a more difficult time
reading words that are not part of their
oral vocabulary.
The Slosson
Oral Reading Test (SORT)(Slosson, 1963) and the Metacomprehension Strategy Index (MSI) questionnaire (Schmitt, 1990) were given to all students in the class at both the
beginning and the end of the school year.