Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
Common Core curriculum recognizes the importance of vocabulary in learning. Refer to this blog to learn about the three tiers Blog on three tiers of vocabulary. Background knowledge of the topic being taught in the classroom is a key component of learning. It becomes the foundation…
I love using literature to teach. It gives me a jumping off point to teach vocabulary and story grammar. It Takes A Village by Jane Cowen-Fletcher Book Companion is a great story that is set in an African village. Yemi is given the responsibility…
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed This is a fun poem about five monkeys jumping on the bed! The first part is appropriate for those children that are readers or to can be read to the child. The second part has a pictures and…
As part of my group work within the special education room, I have a story as part of the routine. I have a variety of students in this room who are all are different levels of expressive language and who have different goals. In order…
Often the students that we are trying to teach tenses to are very young so that they are not readers. This can complicate how we teach them regular and irregular verbs. One way is to display pictures and to teach the tenses as a sequence.…
Listening Comprehension skills versus Reading Comprehension Skills I know that it may be confusing when you are writing goals but if you are the person that is reading the story to a child what we are measuring is listening. If the child is the only…
Here are some examples of some great goals this semester. Sometimes looking at other goals help to formulate your own. Apraxia Casey wrote:Â Goal: By the end of the semester, CHILD will improve intelligibility as evidenced by the accurate production of final /g/ at the…
My plan this summer was to create units using literature and having all the resources in one place. Â As I have been using children’s literature I have been able to discover that there are some stories in which some of the extensions to create deeper…
We have been spending a great deal of time understanding oral language. Â Why is this important for written language? Â What is the correlation? Here is a great PowerPoint from the Department of Education: Oral and written language2 Some have found the paragraph’s graphs confusing…
In class we have been reviewing the three tiers of vocabulary which basically are: Tier 1: Everyday words ( Car, oatmeal, school, lunch) Tier 2: Vocabulary used by mature language users across several content areas. Because of their lack of redundancy in oral language, Tier…