Curriculum for oral language development: Materials for assessing and teaching basic listening, speaking, and reasoning skills. This item is unavailable.Curriculum for oral language development: Materials for assessing and teaching basic listening, speaking, and reasoning skills

Ages 5 through 11. This 8.5" x 11" spiral-bound book includes criterion-referenced assessment measures and instructional activities for teaching listening skills, thinking strategies, vocabulary, grammar, and basic pragmatic communication skills. Skills emphasized include answering questions, associating nouns with their functions, classifying nouns, expressing needs and feelings, using vocabulary effectively, describing actions, describing characteristics of objects, describing experiences, solving problems, describing a process, expressing viewpoints, sequencing stories, predicting conclusions, and other skills.

The activities build language skills that are critical for meeting Core Curriculum Standards - skills that are relevant to the acquisition of basic reading and writing skills. This curriculum has been used widely in school programs by classroom teachers. Speech-language pathologists and learning disability specialists use this resource to help students with communication disorders and other special needs. The activities help special needs students acquire skills that are critical for academic success. Skills critical for effective social interactions are also emphasized.