Over time, small differences
in oral language skill of 5 and 6 year olds grow into a significant reading gap by the time students are in middle school.
Tier 2 words are used across disciplines in writing because they are academic vocabulary, but they are not commonly
used in oral language.
We predict that ensuring a good
foundation in oral language will also improve reading and writing in later school years, even for the oldest children in the class.
It also builds
confidence in oral language, promotes a sense of community, and helps change the pace and mood to improve student motivation.
Improvements
in oral language ability and phonological processing have been associated with improvements in reading ability and are thought to subserve learning to read (2 — 4).
The left temporo - parietal cortex showed a relationship between increased activity after remediation and
improvement in oral language ability and word blending, a measure of phonological awareness (Fig. 2).
Tim Shananan said it best: «Knowing the 10,000 most frequent words in the language (words
common in oral language) doesn't count for much, but knowing the next 20,000 — 40,000 most frequent words is what distinguishes the educated from the uneducated.»
They are designed to help teachers ensure that all of their students get the time to play and explore, become
immersed in oral language and content knowledge, and practice skills and habits of character that they need — both to live joyfully and to be fully successful and proficient.
Those who have strong vocabularies and
syntax in oral language tend to perform better in English and social studies.
In preschool and kindergarten print exposure explained 12 % of the
variance in oral language skills, in primary school 13 %, in middle school 19 %, in high school 30 %, and in college and university 34 %.
Some of these key shifts include embedding language development across the curriculum; an
increase in oral language and multiple opportunities
These include speaking in a non-standard English regional dialect, being less
verbal in their oral language communications, having limited experience outside the community in which they reside, and being relatively unaffected by the pressures of time.
Children who attended the Abbott preschool outperformed those who did
not in oral language, conceptual knowledge, math and literacy.
Most of the words on the test would be rare in first - or second - grade reading material, and some might not even be
in the oral language vocabulary of low - performing children.
State standards include
indicators in oral language comprehension, phonological awareness, vocabulary, letter name knowledge and print concepts (comprehensive in literacy).
Children with dyslexia showed a correlation between the magnitude of increased activation in left temporo - parietal cortex and
improvement in oral language ability.
Doors to DiscoveryTM is a preschool literacy curriculum that uses eight thematic units of activities to help children build fundamental early literacy skills
in oral language, phonological awareness, concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, writing, and comprehension.