Oral Language
We
felt that Student M had some weakness in the area of Oral Language. The biggest issue is when the student was required
to decode a reading or decode what people were saying, he struggled. He often needed to repeat what he was
saying. Sometimes he used the wrong
tense as well. We want to incorporate 3
different oral language activities into his daily classroom routine.
Action Routines
- Total Physical Response: The use of actions with oral language supports student learning. When acting things out, have students talk about their actions in different tenses to practice speaking in the correct tense. For example, our student uses a variety of different grammatical rules such as using past tense and then present tense in the same sentence. Using the TPR strategy, our student would act out various things such as walking to the door and say out loud “I am walking to the door.” In a complete sentence. When returning from walking to the door, they will say “I walked to the door.” This can be accompanied by visuals of the correct suffix for the action and oral pronunciation of the verb.
- Drama: Student M would benefit from additional oral practice such as acting out stories and events in the content area. This is a great way for students to interact with the text as well as use correct pronunciations and grammatical structure when speaking. Our student struggled with endings and tenses of words, often using the wrong tense or word ending. Acting out the content is interactive and gives student M a chance to create his own dialogue that is comfortable for him. His biggest challenge is decoding words quick enough to speak orally. Additional practice and routine improves, so by acting out content on a regular basis he will become comfortable with the concept. http://teachers.net/lessons/
- Podcasting/Recording on Computer: With this strategy we would have student M read and record his readings using a podcast or recorder on the computer. He would save his recording of the reading of a passage, replay it, and follow along listening to his own reading. We would have him mark down areas where he made mistakes and practice those words. Listening to his own reading orally can help him understand areas he can better work on. Also, this gives him more opportunities to comprehend the material because he struggled to comprehend when reading aloud. He could not focus on the comprehension when he was trying to pronounce words correctly. By recording and playing back, it gives him a second chance to understand exactly what he is reading and comprehend better.
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