Over the September break Tara and I did a lot of reading about Oral Language and how to develop it further in our class. Specific summaries of the reading we did can be found in the link below.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7PFZ93wCjTaSjB5Ukl0MTdOSzQ
The overall conclusions we have drawn from all this reading is that we want to embed more oral language development in all areas of our programme. We are specifically conscious of this in our inquiry lessons and developmental play. However, we haven't done too much specific planning around it as you never quite know where the discussion is going to go. I'd like to do more retrospective planning as to what we have covered but haven't found a way to make this manageable.
I had wanted to do some Oral Language testing, particularly on some of our lower students and then another test at the end of the term but with other testing and commitments it will have to wait til next year now.
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