Oral+Language+Assessment+and+Development

= **Oral Language Assessment and Development** =

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[] || 1-3 || Assesses expressive (speaking) langucage based on organization, structure,style, conventions,non-verbal, and oral language conventions. || Quick check for oral languas. Easy to score. || [] || special education all || Tell Me About It is a describing activity. || This quick and easy printable can be used in a variety of situations with readers of all levels who require visual support. || [] || Ages 3-5 yrs. || Literacy Connections[] This website has several ideas on how to improve oral language. After giving the TROLL teachers are able to see where a child is weak and needs improvement. This website has activities that will help improve oral language skills and reading readinss. It includes story telling, finger plays, songs, etc. || This assessment is a rating scale that comes with directions on how to give it and score it. It seems fairly easy to use and only takes about 10 mins. per child. || @http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/california/teachers/resources/oral-language-activities || K-6 || This site offers oral language activities for kindergarten through sixth grade that follow the McGraw-Hill Company books. ||  || @http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm || K-5 || Reader's theater can be used to develop reading readiness and oral language. || Readers theater can also be used as an assessment || This site gives teachers ideas on how to incorporate oral language development in their daily activities. It includes rhyme time, story time, poetry, etc. || This website gives you directions on how to assess oral language. You have to find the materials. ||
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 * Name ** || ** Assessment ** || ** Grade ** || ** Strategy ** || ** Comments ** ||
 * < Daniel Brant || Oral Language Assessment . [] || K-5 || This assessment contains 15 sentences that repre­sent a sampling of different syntactical/grammatical structures of oral English used by adults, in order of complexity. || It provides information concerning strengths and weaknesses in what a student is able to listen to and understand of the complex structures of spoken English used by adults. It is a test of the student’s recep­tive language.J ||
 * < Jacqueline Sosin || MLPP Expressive Language Rubric
 * < Jessica Shuler || Tell Me About It
 * < Andrea Ursitti || [] || K-5 || This site offers a lot of activities and assessment tools that can be used to build oral language skills and development. They offer activities and resources for a range of learners including storytelling, songs, finger plays, and many more activities. Many activities could be integrated with different skilled groups and different ages both independent and group work. || This site offers a lot of information on how to complete the activities and assessment and the impact of the use in the classroom. They offer resources to parents and teachers. This is a really great site. ||
 * < Marissa Markey || Interactive book reading [|book reading] || K-5 || This site offers ideas on how to interactively read books with your students to do an oral assessment || Here is the main site to find more great activities [|Early Childhood] ||
 * < Jessica Shuler || [[file:FORM 8-2.rtf]] || birth-7 yrs age || The form provides an Asessment of Language Development for children birth- 7 years of age. || This Assessment is a easy to follow checklistthat can be used in formally. ||
 * < Sarah Kenyon || TROLL: Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy
 * < Melissa Jasmund || Oral Language Activities
 * < Melissa Jasmund || Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays
 * < Sarah Kenyon || How to Test Oral Language Development[] || Pre-K || Oral Language Activities[]