Developing oral language...
Oral
language continues to play an important role in literacy
development. At this stage, children are reading and writing about an
ever-widening array of topics, and they will encounter many, many new
words and more complex sentence structures.
What is important
- Vocabulary
- Sentence structure
How we can help
- Use books as a beginning point for teaching vocabulary and sentence structure. Find vocabulary words and sentence structure modeled in the book. Point it out and make a child-friendly definition for it.
- Practice new words and new sentence structures in a variety of situations.
To see all of the skills in the transitional reading and writing stage, click on the links below.
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Writing Traits
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