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It argues that children use language structures to support reading and that meaningful, fluent spoken expression is necessary for anticipating and comprehending text. Through a case example of a first-grade learner in Reading Recovery, it highlights challenges with staccato reading and limited sentence generation. 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Lee  \nChildren use language structures as a basis for learning how to read. Therefore, literacy learning for young children must incorporate the child’s personal use of oral language. It is their personal oral language that supports them as they attempt new concepts and become better readers. Because of the important role that oral language plays in a young child’s literacy development, it is of the utmost importance that adults who work with young children support the growth of the child’s spoken language beginning in infancy. This article discusses activities that will support oral language development in young children so that they will have a strong linguistic foundation upon which to build literacy skills. Through interactions with the young child that include quality conversations and play, the child’s language development will be strengthened, resulting in a greater foundation for literacy learning.  \nA Challenge  \nA few years ago, I was a Reading Recovery teacher leader working with a young first grade student whom I will call Bryan (a pseudonym) . Reading Recovery is a one-to-one intervention for struggling first grade readers. It was expected that learning to read and write would be difficult for these students. Bryan, however, proved to be a bigger challenge than most.  \nBryan’s staccato reading often interfered with his ability to comprehend the meaning of the story. He word-called what he knew and then waited for me to tell him the words he did not know. My efforts to get him to put words into meaningful, fluent phrases were often unproductive. Further, in the writing portion of the Reading Recovery lesson where the student and teacher first converse and then write a single sentence generated by the student, Bryan showed no progress. His portion of the student/teach  \ner conversation was usually a one or two-word phrase. He  \nhad extreme difficulty generating a sentence that he wanted to write, and he could not remember his thought long enough for us to get it recorded into his writing journal.  \nBryan’s lack of success during lessons often left me near desperation. This prompted me to contact the nearest university training center and request a trainer to observe my sessions with Bryan. Following an observation, the trainer emphasized that until I could get Bryan to produce the language needed to anticipate the meaning of text, he would continue to struggle as a literacy learner. This advice prompted me to more closely study the relationship between a child’s oral language development and the child’s endeavor to learn to read.  \nRole of Oral Language  \nThe oral language foundation of the young learner is important. Children entering elementary school already understand how to use language and that language has patterns (Halliday, 1975) . Teachers and parents should realize that oral language development aids the early foundations of literacy. The process of learning to read requires that the child learn to use the visual information that their eyes perceive on the printed page in tandem with the intuitive knowledge of the semantics and syntax  \n6 Dimensions • Volume 48/Number 3  \nof oral and written language. The student begins to analyze the relationship between the printed symbols written on a page of text and the structure of their oral language (Clay, 2015, p. 95) . The acquisition of these skills depends on the child’s utilization of expression, meaning, and their language. The relationship between oral language development and the reading acquisition process of the emerging literacy learner is well documented in the literature (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019; Clay, 2015a, 2015b; Fountas & Pinnell, 2016; Scharer, 2018; Vukelich, Enz, Roskos,& Christie, 2020) .  \nChildren’s control over how they speak and use language is fundamental to their reading, writing, listening, and speakin","cbCaibDJwi5SfOQR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibDJwi5SfOQR","pdf",113975,"English","# The Importance of Oral Language Development in Young Literacy Learners\n## A Challenge\n## Role of Oral Language","[{\"question\":\"Why is oral language development crucial for young literacy learners?\",\"answer\":\"Children use language structures to learn how to read. Oral language provides the meaning and syntax foundation needed as they attempt new concepts and build reading skills.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenge did Bryan face in Reading Recovery?\",\"answer\":\"Bryan’s staccato reading disrupted comprehension. He often word-called instead of producing meaningful, fluent phrases and showed limited progress in generating sentences for writing.\"},{\"question\":\"How do adults support spoken language growth in infancy and early years?\",\"answer\":\"Adults should provide quality conversations and play that strengthen the child’s spoken language. This builds a linguistic foundation for literacy learning.\"}]","The Importance of Oral Language Development in Young Literacy Learners - Children Need to Be Seen and Heard | PDF",1792092104]