Teacher Resources: Developing Oral Language Skills in Early Childhood

This presentation provides teacher resources and activities for developing oral language skills in young children. It includes activities tailored for babies, toddlers, and kids aged 3-5, with a rationale based on oral language research and learning priorities. Activities range from reading colorful books ...Read More

Teacher resources

Table of content
Introduction
Oral language
Activities for babies
Activity for toddler
Activity for Kids
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Oral language is including system with which a person is able to spoken
words for expressing their knowledge, feelings ideas. It is important for a
person to develop the oral language which allow them for purpose of
listening as well as speaking.
This presentation includes creating of different activities for different age
group including babies, toddlers and 3 to 5 years kids. It consists of the
description of different activities, a rationale based on the research
learning priorities for the purpose of oral language development.

Oral language
Oral language can be described as the system through a person will use spoken words for
purpose of expressing things.
Development of the oral language is important for a person as it allow them for purpose of
development of skills and knowledge with speaking and listening by building the strong
relationship with the reading and writing.

Activities for babies
Read from colourful books and name his body parts

A rationale based on oral language
research
It is one of the activities which is the book for purpose of describing the best ways for purpose of
the baby to connect to the world. Small babies love to listen to others and also loves the sound of
their voice.
For this, teachers can use the book with contrasting as well as bright pictures in order to attract the
babies and also respond to them.
It is also important for them to communicate back to themselves. Babies while listening to the
stories try to respond back when hearing someone and also by seeing the bright and colourful
images.

Learning priorities that support oral
language development…
It is one of the important activities for purpose of developing language skills among babies. It is
one of the activities which is based on oral language research.
It is essential in order to build oral language development among the babies for purpose of their
development. It is one of the important activities for oral language development based on
research language priorities which consist of five main components for the oral language.

The resources and preparation needed…
Resources are required for the purpose of carrying out all these activities.
For purpose of completing the activities Reading from colourful books and naming his body parts is
required resources like colourful books which consist of different pictures.
It also require different pictures of the body parts in order to teach the baby about their body parts.

Specific ways the activity supports oral
language development
•These activity is providing support to oral language development as it attract the baby towards
the books.
•It also gains attention from the baby for listening to what a person is speaking.

Theoretical and EYLF links
It is one of the activities which is focusing on providing support to different types of teaching
strategies. It helps to provide a strong sense of identity to the babies.
In these activities, the teacher provides support to the children, making the secure and safe. For
this, the teacher provides acknowledgment as well as response to the cues and signals of the
children.

Teaching strategies, including how you will use
the resources to explore Blank’s Level of Talk
•In this activity, the teacher can use the easily colourful books to the books which consist of the
text for purpose of increasing the level of their learning.
•It ensures the continuous learning and capabilities of the babies to recognize the different
pictures.

Toddler
Speak the complete sentence through the telephone game:

A rationale based on oral
language research
It is a game that include the toy telephone which play an important role for purpose of
development of the oral language of the toddler. It is one of the toys which is a part of life of a
person.
For conducting these activities, teachers need to use of pair of telephone toys and also need to
pretend the dialling the number to call them. It encourages them for purpose of picking the phone
and also the answer the phone.

Learning priorities that support oral language
development
Speaking the complete sentence through the telephone game is an essential activity for the
person. It is based on the different approaches of the research language priorities.
Among the different approaches included in this, Speaking the complete sentence through the
telephone game activity is based on the teaching as well as the extending of the vocabulary
conceptual as in this activity.

The resources and preparation
needed
Resources: There are a limited number of resources to be required for purpose of the activities.
These resources include the toy telephone for both the toddler and the teacher which provide
them opportunities to communicate with the toddler.
It is one of the games which allows the kid to enjoy and play. It ensures the learning with the
teaching which is important for a person.

Specific ways the activity supports
oral language development
•It consists of conversations with the teacher of the toddler which allow them to learn how to
communicate in an effective manner.
•It allow the toddler to learn how to communicate with the others and also allow thm to learn
telephonic etiquettes.

Theoretical and EYLF links
It is also essential for them for purpose of developing of sense of belonging to communities and
groups by connecting to the world.
It helps the toddler to understand how to communicate with others through the phone. It is also
important for them to learn how to socially connect with other people.

Teaching strategies, including how you will
use the resources to explore Blank’s Level of
Talk
•It is an activity that also consists of different levels as in the initial level, teachers can directly
communicate with the toddler with short replies.
•In the next stage, the teacher allows the toddler to communicate with them in full sentences.

Kid of 3 to 5 years
Nursery rhymes and fingerplays

A rationale based on oral
language research
It is one of the activities which is focusing on saying rhymes as well as learning finger plays in
order to provide the assistance for purpose of developing the language through repetition as well
as memorizing the different worlds of the rhyme.
It is important for the purpose of making the kid learn new poems and rhymes which allow them
to learn new words and other things.

Learning priorities that support
oral language development
Nursery rhymes and fingerplays is focusing on the development of oral language skills. It is an
activity that is based on the research language priority. It is an activity that helps to create a
learning environment where kids are able to understand what is to be taught in the video and also
helps them to repeat it.
It also provides opportunities for the teaching of new words to the students which is according to
the approaches. It assists for the purpose of listening and speaking skills among the students.

The resources and preparation
needed
Different types of resources are required for the purposes of this activity. It requires the different
types of kid’s video that includes rhyming, CD, laptop or computer to play to it.
All these resources are required for the purpose of playing the video and also to make the kid
interested in the video.

Specific ways the activity supports
oral language development
•It is an activity that allows the kid for purpose of listening to the rhyme and also sing it. It is
important for purpose of learning and oral development.
•It is also providing support to the learning development by repeating it again and again which
helps them to remember things in an effective manner.

Theoretical and EYLF links
Nursery rhymes and fingerplays is an activity for the purpose of developing of oral language of
the kids. It consists of different types of teaching strategies according to the EYLF links.
These strategies help the kids for purpose of making them more confident and also allow them to
be more involved in the learning process.
It is an important activity that is essential for purpose of developing of disposition of earning like
curiosity, confidence, reflexivity, imagination and other components.

Teaching strategies, including how you will
use the resources to explore Blank’s Level of
Talk
•It is an activity that consists resources to a different level in the initial phase, teachers are using
short rhyme videos.
•In the upgraded stage, they are using long videos for rhyme which allow the kids to learn more
things.

CONCLUSION

From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that oral language development is essential in the
life of a student. It allows them for purpose of listen to others in effective manner and also to speak to them in
clear manner.

It can be linked wit reading and writing as for these activities, it is important for a person to learn to speak.
For purpose of developing this skill, teachers can develop different types of activities that provides them
guidance for purpose of developing of the oral language development skills among the children.

It takes place in the early age of the person which allow them for purpose of development of the oral
language. There are different types of activities which includes the Read from colourful books and name his
body parts, Speak the complete sentence through the telephone game and Nursery rhymes and fingerplays.

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