This document discusses the importance of oral language development for building literacy. It defines oral language as communicating through speaking and listening, which is children's primary means of communication. The objectives are to explain how oral language development supports literacy, identify factors that help develop learners' oral skills, determine activities to promote oral language, and provide sample activities. It also discusses the concepts of automaticity, fluency, and their importance for reading comprehension. Fluency bridges word recognition and comprehension by freeing cognitive resources to focus on meaning.

1. Early Language Literacy and Numeracy
(ELLN) on the Big Six of Reading:
Building Oral Language Skill for
Literacy Development
Shiela Mae F. Fuñe
Dinalyn Presto

2. Objectives:
• explain the importance of oral
language development in building
literacy
• identify factors that will help
develop the oral skills of the
learners;
• determine effective activities that
promote oral language
development; and
• prepare sample activities that will
develop and assess oral language
skill

3. WHAT IS ORAL
LANGUAGE?
• Communicating with others through
speaking and listening
• The child’s first, most important and
most frequently used structured
medium of communication. (Cregan,
1998)
• Oral language acquisition is a natural
process for children. (Alex & Kortner,
1995)

8. AUTOMATICITY
 quick, accurate recognition of
letters and words with little
conscious attention
 frees cognitive resources to
process meaning
 is achieved through corrected
practice

9. ANALOGY
If reading is ________:
Fluency is …………
What is the
relationship of fluency
and reading
comprehension?

10. “If reading is the path to success,
Fluency is the bridge to
comprehension.”

11. What does fluent reading sound like?
FLUENT READING
It flows. It sounds

12. WHY FLUENCY IS IMPORTANT?
 provides bridge between word recognition and
comprehension
FLUENT READERS able to focus their attention on text.
focus much attention on figuring out
words,
so the have less attention devoted to
comprehension

13. REMEMBER!
Fluency is increased when…
Develop instant word recognition
Fluency is increased when…
Practice repeated reading of text
Fluency is increased when…
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