523: 7) Oral language interventions for school aged children

K-2

Learning to speak, read and write

3-6

speaking, reading, and writing to learn

Focus shifts form implicit and explicit intervention methods

Incorporating meta-linguistic and meta-cognitive awareness/skills

academic language

*morphological knowledge

*inferential thinking

*discourse learning

*complex sentences

*vocabulary

Morphosyntax

Children increasingly need to understand and use complex syntactic structures

common difficulties in complex syntax

*Shorter sentences, decreased clausal density and variety, frequent grammatical errors *Expository, persuasive discourse

*Academic register, disciplinary text features

Intervention methods for morphosyntax

*Sentence Deconstruction

*Sentence Completion

*Sketch and Speak

*Sentence Combining

*Shape Coding

Sentence deconstruction

1. introduce the target skill and provide definition

2. give an example

3. modeling "I do" and guided practice

4. independent practice "you do"

5. ind. practice - provide multiple opportunities