Oral+Language

  
 * **What is oral language?**
 * Oral language is the child's ability to communicate through spoken language. Their knowledge of language helps them translate the sounds they hear into messages that are meaningful to them.
 * **Why do we assess it?**
 * We assess it because children need the base of how language works in order to be able to read. If they do not have this base, they will have difficulty reading. It will cause them even more hardship when they try and think about and understand what they read. In assessing them we will hopefully catch the problem before the student becomes to frustrated and forms a bad attitude towards reading.
 * There are five steps that are used when a training teacher gives a student an oral language assessment. These include:
 * //Reading and Record-Taking//
 * Teacher selects a book at an appropriate reading level
 * Introduces the story by stating title and giving a summary statement
 * Child reads the book independently
 * Teacher listens and records the behaviors that student has while reading, and the notations being used.
 * //Retelling and Responding//
 * Child after reading the story, retells it back to the teacher
 * Teacher listens and evaluates the level of comprehension that the student has, and again the notations used.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Calculate Error, Accuracy, and Self-correction Rate//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Teacher counts the number of errors and self-corrections
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Uses the formula to determine accuracy and self-correction rates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Analyze the Oral Reading Record//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Teacher figures out the cueing systems that the student was using.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Determines the fluency at which the child read using the rubric in place.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Evaluates the accuracy and completeness of the reading, using again the rubric in place.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Identifies whether the text was at the instructional, independent or frustration level for the student to read.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Identify Appropriate Teaching Procedures//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Teacher selects appropriate instructional text and places the student in the correct reading group.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Teacher designs and teaches lessons that are focused on the students needs in that reading group.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Ways to help a child develop oral language skills. These different ways can be used by a teacher or a parent.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Read books everyday to a child whether your a parent or a teacher.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Ask the child lots of questions about characters or events in the stories
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Talk to the child all the time. Talk about anything at all: What they are doing, what they are seeing, or about a fun time they have had
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Ask questions that get the child talking. Phrase these questions so he/she has to answer with more than just "yes" or "no", make them open ended with a little explanation involved.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Invite children to tell you stories
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**References:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">(2001). //The Michigan Literacy Progress Profile//: State of Michigan Department of Education.

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