Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Oral Language
A collection of videos, articles for parents and teachers, webcasts for teachesr, and research briefs on helping children develop their oral language skills.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Who's Inside the Mitten?
Lesson plan that will promote student's involvement and self-confidence in your ESL class and thus improve oral language skills. It provides downloads and links.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
TESL Journal
The Internet Tesl Journal: Software Language Learning
A great article providing info and stats about the use of presentation software to enhance classroom leaning, specifically in ESL classrooms. Includes detailed comparisons to traditional presentation methods (oral, word processing) and...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Let's Brush Our Teeth
Shows the steps for brushing teeth properly. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Voice of Witness: A Sudanese Refugee's Oral History
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: Let's Get a Checkup
A story about getting a checkup at the doctor and at the dentist. Includes audio narration in 11 additional languages with text in English.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Variations in Language
This lesson focuses on the use of variation in language when preparing a speech including directness, subjectivity and objectivity, abstraction, and accurate, reliable, unbiased, credible, and current sources.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning
Oral language development facilitates print literacy. In this article, we focus on the ways in which teachers can ensure students' speaking and listening skills are developed. We provide a review of effective classroom routines,...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Index of Lessons
Want to learn Spanish? Go to this site! Contains tutorials on regular and irregular verbs, nouns, adj., adv., singular, plural, possessive, everything. Includes audio examples, oral exercises, practice sessions, and tests. Have fun, this...
Other
Life Long Earning: Communication Skills
Brief definitions of communication skills terms along with examples of how a student might combine these skills into projects and real-world applications.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Effective vocabulary instruction begins with diverse opportunities for word learning: wide reading, high-quality oral language, word consciousness, explicit instruction of specific words, and independent word-learning strategies. This...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
Other
Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
US Department of Education
U.s. Dept. Of Education: Compact for Reading: Second Grade Activities (Spanish)
Links to one hundred second grade activities arranged by skill set and designed to improve reading and writing. All activities are in PDF format and are ready to print and use. They can be downloaded individually, according to skill set,...
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.k.1.c : Kindergarten English Language Arts
Here is a collection of common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.1.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. All worksheets are free to view, download, or print.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Complete the Sentence....
Oral language development is crucial to Kindergarteners because it lays the foundation for the development of reading and writing. One of the main skills students need to tackle is speaking in complete sentences. With this lesson,...
Other
Ncsall: Relationship Between Reading and Speaking
The interview discusses the relationship between reading and speaking.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Learning From the People Collection
The ECHO Collection provides rich, multi-disciplinary educational resources in science, literacy and language arts, fine art, and social studies. The combined skills, experience, and collections of our six institutions provide...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Seven Selfish Shellfish
This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister: a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words. [0:29]
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Amelia Bedelia
First graders explore the nuances of the English language and the importance of being clear and precise when communicating, whether orally or through writing. They study the English language, specifically grammar and parts of speech, to...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: General Listening Quiz: Enjoying the Zoo
Students listen to a recording about a visit to the zoo, then read and answer questions to check their oral comprehension. Includes followup ideas for discussion and research.