Oral+Language+Resources

Here are some internet resources that you might want to check out.
[|Storytelling Lesson Plans and Activities] this internet site offers resources for oral storytelling.

[|Oral Language Activites that Develop Reading Readiness]** Games and Circle Time Activites that Build Receptive and Expressive Language**
 * These activites can build children's vocabulary, increase their communication skills and prepare them to adapt what they know about oral language as they explore written language.

[|ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CONTINUUM]

[|Building Oral Language] This site give you a look inside a Kindergarten classroom where the teacher Kindergarten teacher Cindy Wilson help students make connections with their own -- and each other's -- linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

Songs and Fingerplays
[|Fingerplays] - this site highlights the values of using fingerplays with young children.

[|Fingerplays, Rhymes, Action Song]s this is a preschool site however there are a lot of fingerplays and rhymes you could use for oral language development.

[|Fingerplays] -- organized by the month. Most are piggyback songs.