ORAL LANGUAGE— THE FOUNDATION OF LITERACY “Hug your children by surrounding them with love and language. Talk is the road that leads to reading and changes lives.” —Dr. Adria Klein, professor emerita of education, California State University, San Bernardino
KEY FINDINGS
> > Oral language development precedes literacy and parallels it. Both oral and written language are developmental language processes that are mutually supportive and develop over time (Scharer et al., 2017; Cunningham and Zibulsky, 2014; Pinnell and Fountas, 2011). > > The interactive strategies that parents use, particularly the quality of their language that they share with their children and the books they read aloud, are strongly related with their children’s language development (Hart and Risley, 2003; Landry and Smith, 2006). > > The interactive read-aloud (reading aloud plus conversation about the book), also known as dialogic reading, is a particularly potent early language experience for young children (Cunningham and Zibulsky, 2014; Bennett-Armistead, Duke, and Moses, 2005; Pinnell and Fountas, 2011). > > The understandings about reading that young children acquire through oral language include the following (Snow, Burns, and Griffin, 1998; Klein, 2014): • Basic language components that both oral and written language share in common such as lexical, syntactic, and interpretive processes • Cognitive mechanisms such as working memory • Conceptual memory such as vocabulary and topic knowledge
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CHAPTER 5: TEACH 6 FAMILY LITERACY
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