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List 3 of the classroom strategies for developing oral language
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Encourage conversation
Expect complete syntactic structure
Maintain eye contact
Remind students to speak loudly and articulate clearly
Explain that tone of voice can change the meaning of what a speaker says
Attend to listening skills as well
Insure instructional language is clear
Make sure all students organize and express thoughts clearly
Provide help with correct syntax and sentence form by modeling, questioning, and redirecting
Incorporate a question of the day during instruction
Ensure students understand the different parts of speech
Teach students how to build sentences
Teach students how to rearrange sentences
Have students build phrases independently