Oral Language in the Classroom
This means communicating about something outside your direct experience and/or not currently present
What is Decontextualized Language?
This is the reason direct instruction is required to become literate.
What is because written language is not a biologically developed skill?
A student with impaired decoding skills and good comprehension ability would be diagnosed with this disorder.
What is dyslexia?
This is the element of narratives that is experienced equally across cultures and languages.
What is event structure?
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?
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?
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?
What are . . .
listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, and spelling?
This is the story grammar element that creates a need for a main character to act.
What is initiating event, take off, or problem?
This is the RtI/MTSS tier involved when SLPs provide instruction in decoding to children on their caseload.
What is Tier 3, Intensive Instruction?
Communicating to regulate thinking, reflect, and request information is literate language specific to this oral language challenge.
What is Hidden Curriculum?
Intervention on this component of early literacy development can result in improved reading 4 years later.
What is phonological awareness?
These are two complementary functions of Response-to-Intervention (or Multi-Tiered Systems of Support) processes.
What are prevention and diagnosis?
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?
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?
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?
Typography, spatial sequencing, and punctuation are examples of this component of early literacy development.
What is print concepts?
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?
This is the first stage of narrative development, consisting of a string of simple sentences labelling and describing.
What is/are Heaps?
This is an evidence-based practice for addressing spelling skills in later grades.
What is a word study approach?
This is the unstated communication cycle expected in most western classrooms.
What is Initiation - Response - Evaluation?
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)?
This is the percentage of children with language learning disabilities who also have speech sound disorders.
What is 25%?
These are the five required components of a true narrative.
What are initiating event, plan, attempt/action, consequence/ending, resolution/end feeling?
This is arguably the largest challenge of SLPs working within literacy development.
What is explaining your knowledge and skills in literacy?