Sentences with phrase «oral language first»

In developmental terms, humans acquire oral language first — a prerequisite for literacy.

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As a mom who is nearing the end of baby's first year and as an occupational therapist who is always looking for toys that will promote children's overall development (specifically their fine motor, cognitive, gross motor, oral motor, self - help, and language skills), I decided to take a look at today's popular toys and create a list for you.

Poor oral language development, as students who live in poverty typically hear 32 million fewer words than those students born above the poverty line in the first five years of life.

Note that the first two items focus on receptive skills, though receptive and expressive oral language skills are often intertwined.

The basic comprehension strategies that children build out of oral language skills in kindergarten and first grade become more complex in second grade and beyond.

One other big benefit that we have seen from using this product is how much the phonemic awareness and oral language development leads to better writing in writing workshops in Kindergarten and First Grade.

Courses will examine first and second language development; second language literacy development, assessment, and instruction; successful approaches to assessing and teaching oral language and content skills including designs for differentiating instruction according to students» levels of language proficiency; and the multiple factors that influence academic achievement among this student population.

We suggest that focusing the first reception year on developing children's oral language abilities may help to attenuate the attainment gaps experienced by younger children.

Therefore, reading instruction / materials should be provided in a child's first language until that child has achieved oral fluency in English, whereupon he or she can apply those reading skills to text in English (CREDE, 1998; National Research Council, 1998, p. 321).

Clay's role in developing and guiding the implementation of Reading Recovery is such a demanding and illustrious one that there is a danger that it will mask her accomplishments in other areas, including oral language (Clay, 1971; her first book, and Clay, Gill, Glynn, McNuaghton, & Salmor, 1983), writing (Clay 1975, 1987), and teaching - learning interactions that accommodate individuals with diverse starting points and rates of learning in typical primary classes (Clay, 1998).

I didn't realize it at the time, but I had witnessed a first class demonstration of the integrated curriculum — art, literature, writing, reading, and oral language shared with fascinated first grade listeners.

Through PE activities using patterns of counting - off and rhythms, first graders begin to recognize the same patterns that they apply to language structures both oral and in writing — such as a poetic ABAB pattern.

High oral proficiency in the first language: conversational interactions, vocabulary enrichment activities, children's literature, group activities

Some reviewers feel that it is overly long and repetitious and a tad didactic, but that is perhaps to lose sight of the fact that it wasn't written in a Western language or, in the first instance, for a Western audience, but for a Kenyan audience still familiar with the oral tradition - in Kenya his works are often read aloud over a period of (many!)

When read from an English / Western perspective there is some justification for this viewpoint, but it should be remembered that the book was not written in a Western language or, in the first instance, for a Western audience, but for a Kenyan audience still familiar with the oral tradition - in Kenya, Wa Thiong «o's works are often read aloud over a period of (many) days.

The language, written and oral, is the first way of approaching of the world and helps a lot, but it is better not to become a cliché.