The document discusses aligning oral language practice strategies with different levels of English Language Development (ELD). It lists ELD levels from beginning to advanced and suggests strategies that fit well with each level. Strategies for beginning levels include repetition, echoing, and gestures. Early intermediate strategies include role playing and reciting songs. Intermediate strategies involve activities like hat tricks and lingo bingo. Early advanced strategies include sentence construction charts and word maps. Advanced strategies focus on vocabulary, idioms, debates, and abstract language.

1. Connecting ELD Levels and Oral Practice Strategies

2. Strategies from: Strategies for Encouraging Oral Practice Instuctional Service Department English Language Acquisition May, 2009 All of these strategies can be used for any of the ELD levels, but some of them seem to fit naturally with a specific level.

3. Aligning oral practice strategies with ELD levels can make the strategies much easier to use. ELD Levels Oral Practice Strategies

4. Beginning Level Oral Language Repeat List Tell Say Identify people, place, object Answer(yes/no,who,what, where)

5. Echo/ Repeat My Turn, Your Turn Pantomimes and Gestures Concentration Language Pattern Songs and Chants Puppets Illustrated Word Bank Strategies for Beginning Level

6. Early Intermediate Oral Language Recite familiar songs, poems Ask/Answer simple question Role play Retell Makes statements about immediate world

7. Strategies for Early Intermediate Level Structured Role Play Musical Commands Whip Around Puppets Language Pattern, Songs, Chants

8. Intermediate Oral Language Formulate and answer questions Retell Identify main point of story Explain Predict Compare/contrast Describe

9. Strategies for Intermediate Level Hat Trick I Have, Who Has? Think, Write, Pair and Compare Vieja Ines Lines of Communication Lingo Bingo

10. Early Advanced Oral Language Present Report Identify main idea, supporting details and concepts Solicit information hypothesize Infer word meaning from context and affixes

11. Strategies for Early Advanced Level Sentence Construction Chart Observation Chart Find Your Partner Found Poem Word Maps Vocabulary Ball Toss Round Robin Sharing

12. Advanced Oral Language Debate and support point of view Persuade Understand and use native-like language Justify Abstract and figurative language Idioms, jokes

13. Strategies for Advanced Level Shades of Meaning Dr. Know It All Round Robin Sharing Sentence Constructions Chart Found Poem Word Map Student Vocabulary Log Your Word Knowledge Observation Chart