Oral Language in the Classroom
Contributions of Language to Literacy
Characteristics of Language Learning Disabilities (Including Reading)
Narrative Language
SLP Roles in Literacy Development
100

This means communicating about something outside your direct experience and/or not currently present

What is Decontextualized Language?

100

This is the reason direct instruction is required to become literate.

What is because written language is not a biologically developed skill?

100

A student with impaired decoding skills and good comprehension ability would be diagnosed with this disorder.

What is dyslexia?

100

This is the element of narratives that is experienced equally across cultures and languages.

What is event structure?

100

This is the area of literacy addressed when SLPs collaborate with preschool teachers to create a print-rich environment.

What is emergent literacy?

What is concepts of print?

200

Facing the students, speaking directly, repeating and rephrasing information, and using all your students' senses are strategies that improve what aspect of teachers' communication?

What is Speaking?

200

Japanese has a syllabary, where the writing system of the language is recorded at a syllable level.  This is the writing system of English, which records at a sound level.

What is an alphabetic cipher?

200
These are three academic skills that may be impacted a learning disabilities.

What are . . . 

listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, and spelling?

200

This is the story grammar element that creates a need for a main character to act.

What is initiating event, take off, or problem?

200

This is the RtI/MTSS tier involved when SLPs provide instruction in decoding to children on their caseload.

What is Tier 3, Intensive Instruction?

300

Communicating to regulate thinking, reflect, and request information is literate language specific to this oral language challenge.

What is Hidden Curriculum?

300

Intervention on this component of early literacy development can result in improved reading 4 years later.

What is phonological awareness?


300

These are two complementary functions of Response-to-Intervention (or Multi-Tiered Systems of Support) processes.

What are prevention and diagnosis?

300

Using a parent-child comparative analysis is a example of an option for this professional SLP task.

What is an unbiased assessment of narrative language?

300

These are two strategies SLPs can use to support reading fluency among students in later grades.

What are . . . 

multiple re-readings?

small-group dramatic readings?

choral reading?

visual supports?

400

This is an example of a linguistic change between casual conversation and an academic classroom.

What is . . . 

use of concise or complex syntax?

use of specific or abstract vocabulary?

using transitional phrases or other linguistic markers?

400

Typography, spatial sequencing, and punctuation are examples of this component of early literacy development.

What is print concepts?

400

These are three pragmatic language skill challenges associated with language learning disability.

What is . . . 

limited verbal fluency?

frequent miscommunications?

ability to adjust language to conversational partner?

comprehension of discourse level language?

using complex language meaningfully?

telling shorter stories?

explaining or describing new information?

developing and maintaining typical peer relationships?

400

This is the first stage of narrative development, consisting of a string of simple sentences labelling and describing.

What is/are Heaps?

400

This is an evidence-based practice for addressing spelling skills in later grades.

What is a word study approach?

500

This is the unstated communication cycle expected in most western classrooms.

What is Initiation - Response - Evaluation?

500

These are the five components of language comprehension within Scarborough's Reading Rope.

What are background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures (or linguistic structure), verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge (or print concepts)?

500

This is the percentage of children with language learning disabilities who also have speech sound disorders.

What is 25%?

500

These are the five required components of a true narrative.

What are initiating event, plan, attempt/action, consequence/ending, resolution/end feeling?

500

This is arguably the largest challenge of SLPs working within literacy development.

What is explaining your knowledge and skills in literacy?

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