Padlet: Oral Language Activities by

Book Talks

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:12:31 UTC

Book talks are brief teasers that teachers give to introduce books and interest students in reading them.

Choral Reading

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:18:18 UTC

Students use oral reading to share poems and other brief texts. This can provide students with valuable oral reading practice, which they learn to read more expressively.

Hot Seat

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:22:45 UTC

A role-playing activity that builds students' comprehension.

Interactive Read-Alouds

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:25:10 UTC

Teachers use this to share books with students to enhance their comprehension by engaging them in the process before, during, and after the reading.

Interactive Writing

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:28:56 UTC

Teachers use this to compose a message with students and write it on chart paper. Interactive writing is used to demonstrate how writing works and show students how to construct words using their knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences and spelling patterns.

KWL Charts

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:34:45 UTC

Teachers use KWL charts during thematic units to activate students' background knowledge about a topic and to scaffold them as they ask questions and organize the information they're learning.

Language Experience Approach (LEA)

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:40:27 UTC

A reading and writing procedure that's based on students' language and experiences. A student dictates words and sentences about an experience, and the teacher writes them; as the words and sentences are written, the teacher models how written language works, and the text becomes the students' reading material.

Semantic Feature Analysis

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 22:56:56 UTC

Teachers create a semantic feature analysis to help students examine the characteristics of content-area concepts. Teachers draw a grid of characteristics listed on one axis and examples listed on the other.

Shared Reading

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 23:02:00 UTC

Teachers use shared reading to read authentic literature with students who can't read those books independently.

Story Boards

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 23:07:32 UTC

Cards on which the illustrations and text from a picture book have been attached.

Story Retelling

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 23:12:56 UTC

Teachers use this to monitor students' comprehension. The teachers sit one-on-one with each student and ask them to retell a story they've just read or listened to read aloud; students gather the information they remember to provide a summary that reveals their level of comprehension.

Word Walls

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 23:16:33 UTC

Word walls are collections of words posted in the classroom that students use in work-study activities and refer to when they're writing.

Word Sorts

calebsmith03 — 2025-01-21 23:21:47 UTC

Used to examine and categorize words according to their meanings, phoneme-grapheme correspondences, or spelling patterns. The purpose is to help students focus on the conceptual and phonological features of words and identify recurring patterns.

Language Experience Approach

calebsmith03 — 2025-02-28 00:43:29 UTC

A reading and writing procedure that's based on the student's language and experiences. A student dictates words and sentences about an experience, and the teacher writes them; as the words and sentences are written, the teacher models how written language works, and the text becomes the students' reading material.