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.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Educore: Exceeding the Common Core Speaking Standards
Erik Palmer explains that the Common Core State Standards place importance on speaking effectively in a variety of scenarios, both formal and informal. He notes that students need to have broadly applicable oral communication skills....
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Guidelines for Oral History Interviews
Speaking to people with firsthand knowledge of an event is an important way to gather information. Use these guidelines to help prepare for an oral history interview.
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Seed House
Students will communicate in oral, artistic, written and nonverbal form as they study seeds and their growth. Students will plant seeds, make observations about the seeds' growth, and report their observations to peers .
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist students with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 8: El Entretenimiento
In this eighth unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about how Spanish-speaking peoples entertain themselves and they investigate a dance style. Includes modeling of oral Spanish pronunciation and conversation, games,...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Students listen to a conversation that uses simple words to describe two different people. They then complete an exercise to test their comprehension. Designed for Spanish-speaking English language learners, this exercise reinforces...