Oral Language is the Foundation for Literacy
The purpose of this course is to equip teachers with the knowledge of the components of oral language, their impact on literacy, and how to strengthen oral language in the classroom. Most importantly, this course provides teachers with the necessary tools they need to meet the needs of all students, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Cost
- 100% Free
- Time to complete
- 4 Hours
Recommended for
- Infant/Toddler educators
- Preschool/Pre-K educators
- K-3 educators
- Administrators
- Stakeholders
By the End of This Course You’ll Be Able To
- The learner will identify characteristics of a language-focused classroom environment.
- The learner will be able to define the components of oral language, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and social communication.
- The learner will learn classroom activities that promote the development of all components of oral language.
Why It Matters
This course will equip teachers with the knowledge of the components of oral language, their impact on literacy, and how to strengthen oral language in the classroom. Most importantly, this course provides teachers with the necessary tools they need to meet the needs of all students, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
How it Works
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Learn at Your Own Pace
You don’t have to finish the course all in one sitting. In fact, we recommend you take this course a little bit at a time, incorporating what you’ve learned in the classroom.
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Earn IACET CEUs
In order to pass and receive IACET CEUs for this course, you will first need to complete all the lessons, then complete the end of course assessment with a score of 80% or higher.
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Free Guided Resources
As you go through a course, we’ll introduce you to free resources that will help you implement what you’re learning.
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Never Learn Alone
Have a question on what you’re learning in the course or how to use a resource? Reach out to the Cox Campus community for advice or to lend a helping hand to others.
Lessons
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Lesson 1
OL Lesson 1 - Oral Language is the Foundation for Literacy
Duration 24 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn about oral language and its impact on literacy development -
Lesson 2
OL Lesson 2 - An Environment that Cultivates Language for All Learners
Duration 38 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn characteristics of a language-centered classroom environment that supports oral language development in all children, including those who come from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. -
Lesson 3
OL Lesson 3 - Phonology & Phonetics
Duration 24 minutesIn this lesson, you will about an element of language form, phonology that governs the sounds of speech and how speech sounds can be combined to produce words. -
Lesson 4
OL Lesson 4 - Morphology
Duration 30 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn about morphology, a subcomponent of language form that involves morphemes, the smallest meaningful units of language. -
Lesson 5
OL Lesson 5 - Syntax
Duration 20 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn about syntax, a subcomponent of language form that involves the way words and phrases can be arranged in sentences. -
Lesson 6
OL Lesson 6 - Semantics
Duration 36 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn about language content or semantics which is closely related to vocabulary. -
Lesson 7
OL Lesson 7 - Social Communication
Duration 22 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn about language use, or pragmatics, the social context of language. -
Lesson 8
OL Lesson 8 - Oral Language Routines that Support Deep Literacy
Duration 31 minutesIn this lesson, you will learn to integrate oral language building activities and routines into all parts of the day. -
Lesson 9
Oral Language End of Course Assessment
Duration 18 minutes
Your Facilitator
Salley Edwards
k-3rd Content Specialist
Salley is a Content Specialist at the Rollins Center focusing on kindergarten through third grade reading instruction. She is a member of the Rollins' Content Development Team that creates online learning content and courses for Cox Campus.
FAQs
The Cox Campus is the digital outreach platform for the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy. Our team is composed of experienced teachers, early learning and language experts, neuroscientists, school leaders, speech language pathologists and authorities in adult learning and curriculum design to give all children access to the Science of Reading to change the odds for all children.
When you sign up for the Cox Campus, you'll get access to interactive, video-based courses, hundreds of free printable resources, virtual workshops and webinars from early childhood development experts, and a community of child-pacing professionals and families.
The Cox Campus is for all child-facing adults to work to improve child outcomes and positively impact learning. We have courses and content designed for educators, school district leaders, medical professionals, childcare providers, families, and more.
Everything on the Cox Campus is available at no cost – ever. Thanks to generous partner investments and grant funding, the Cox Campus creates online courses and resources for child-facing adults so literacy is a reality for every child.
All the resources and courses on Cox Campus are created based on the latest research and science in early childhood development. Childhood development experts at the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy at the Atlanta Speech School create all of the content based on strategies they implement in real classrooms.
New courses, resources, and teaching guides are released frequently. All of the content on Cox Campus is designed to help teachers, families, and community leaders with challenges they may be facing right now.
The Rollins Center, of the Atlanta Speech School, in some cases, may allow an instructor, facilitator, content editor or a subject matter expert or consultant with proprietary interests to conduct professional development activities at Rollins events, provided that appropriate disclosure of such interest is made. Disclosure of proprietary interest will be made on course material and at the beginning of the course/learning event, when applicable.
