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WorksheetsChapter 5: Oral Language Development
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which is NOT a trait of integrated language arts instruction?
Opportunities for social interaction among students.
Use of oral & written language to achieve lesson goal.
Using language for meaningful, functional purposes.
Pronunciation drills prior to content instruction.
A major source of comprehensible input for oral English development is...
Task-directed talk, including teacher talk, if SIOP is used.
Read-alouds of novels students will read in coming years.
Penmanship practice to develop motor coordination.
Grammar drills a bit beyond the students' current ELP.
Which does NOT promote beginners' oral English development?
Emphasis on speaking in grammatically correct sentences.
Participating with drawing, gesturing or simple expressions.
Participating with drawing, gesturing or simple expressions.
Social-emotional support to help them adjust.
Intermediate English learners...
Read and write English with the ease of a native speaker.
Express themselves using technical content vocabulary.
Benefit from instruction conveying meaning through visuals.
Tutor native English speakers on using prepositional phrases,
Songs and games promote oral ELD through all EXCEPT... (which answer is false)
Creating opportunities to demonstrate students' strengths.
Require students to write a self-evaluative essay.
Lower the affective filter so oral acquisition may proceed.
Permit students to participate at their own ELD level.
How can drama be used for oral language development?
To provide props that stimulate students' own dramatic play.
To give ELs a written script to follow.
To base study on stories, poems and academic content.
To create perform formal theatrical presentations
This is NOT true about academic language in content areas...
It includes specific academic terms.
It corresponds to higher-level thinking.
It included oral explanations with interrelated clauses.
It develops best when learned naturally through conversation.
Listening comprehension for academic language does NOT develop when...
Students say the pledge or sing "America the Beautiful.
Teachers use realia, pictures & graphics with explanations.
Students work in small groups on structured, academic tasks.
When class members present to the class on academic topics.
The Student Oral Language Observation (SOLOM) focuses on...
Sociolinguistic demands of English use in class instruction.
Fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation and comprehension.
Phonics, morphology, spelling, text structure & orthography.
Academic features of English in math, science and social studies.
Using SOLOM works best when...
A standardized test determines entry/exit of EL program.
Parents teach academic content while you make observations.
Observations form a pattern of progress over time.
You want to include primary language instruction in contents.
Strategies to address varied oral English abilities include...
Placing beginners ELs at the front of the room.
Allowing ELs to look at magazines while you lecture.
Grouping students in pairs/triads to support beginner ELs.
Exempting ELs from taking end-of-unit tests.
Differentiating instruction for varied oral language abilities requires... (check all that apply)
Providing the same path to learning for all students.
Consideration of each student's oral language abilities.
Analysis of the oral language demans of your lessons.
Planning varied ways for participation & showing learning
