Oral Language Literacy Activities Vocab by Soph

1. Shared Reading

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Teachers read the book aloud, modeling fluent reading, and then they read the book again and again for several days.

2. Interactive Read Aloud

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Enhances students' comprehension by engaging them in the reading process before, during, and after reading.

3. Grand Conversations

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Discussions about stories in which the students explore the big ideas, deepen their comprehension and reflect on their feelings.

4. Choral Reading

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Provides students with valuable oral reading practice, in which they learn to read more expressively and increase their reading frequency. (Echo reading)

5. Story retelling

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Sitting one-to-one with students and asking them to retell a story they've just read or listened to; students organize the information they remember to provide a personalized summary that reveals their level of comprehension.

6. Story Boards

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Cards that have a section for illustrations and text for students to put in order of the story.

7. Interactive Writing

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As students participate in creating and writing the text on chart paper with the help of the teacher, students also write it on a small whiteboard.

8. Language Experience Approach

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A reading and writing procedure that's based on students' language and experiences.

9. Word Walls

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A collection of words posted in the classroom that students use for word-study activities and refer to when their writing.

10. Word Sorts

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Used to examine and categorize words according to their meanings, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, or spelling patterns.

11. Semantic Feature Analysis

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Used to help students examine the characteristics of content-area concepts

12. KWL Charts

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Used to activate students' background knowledge about a topic and scaffold them as they ask questions and organize the information they're learning.

13. Hot seat

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A role-playing activity that builds students' comprehension of the characters' personalities.

14. Book Talks

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Brief teasers that teachers give to introduce books and interest students in reading them.

WL 1. Concepts of print

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a "set of rules" that are followed by readers and writers so that the text can be understood in the intended way.

WL 2. Book Orientation

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a teacher-led activity where students are introduced to a new book by examining its key elements like the title, author, cover illustration, and initial pages.

WL 3. Directionality

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Directionality is your ability to take the concept of left and right into the space beyond your fingertips. Directionality is the ability to see right and left on other objects..

WL 4. Letter and word concepts

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The basic understanding is that letters are individual symbols that combine to form words.

WL 5. Environmental print

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the print that people see in their everyday lives, such as on signs, labels, and logos

WL 6: Morning message

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Students read and interact with a short message written by their teacher