Promoting good oral language and communication skills is perhaps the most important thing parents, caregivers and educators can do to prepare children to enter kindergarten. Having just completed my ...

This immediately reduces the need for scaffolds and emphasizes looking at language and literacy through a lens of cognition and development, instead of repetition and memorization. Teaching oral, ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Oral Language in Reading Instruction is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on where your reading instruction may have holes, ...

Language Support—It is critical to provide ELLs, especially at the lower levels of English proficiency, with language support for oral presentations. In other words, thinking about what vocabulary, ...

Kids' oral language skills can predict future writing difficulties Date: October 6, 2014 Source: Universite de Montreal Summary: Children's future writing difficulties can be identified before ...