MRD 7801

Summer 2015

Oral Language Calendar – due 5/31◦ Complete a calendar for one month (20-25 days of activities) including

activities for language development for each school day of the month. Decide if your calendar will be something you will follow in the classroom or will be something you give to parents to use at home. Be specific and include oral language activities appropriate for the age level of your choice. How will you use the activities in the calendar to engage students in planned conversation to build their vocabularies and allow them to manipulate semantics, syntax and the elements of conversation? All three of these should be covered throughout the month. Make it user friendly and easy to read. The activities should reflect planning and attention to the language development of children from the age you selected.

◦ Morpheme and Utterance Practice –(ungraded – but you should do)!Using the YouTube video of the 3 year old giving hide & seek directions, count the number of morphemes and utterances in the sampling. And then identify functions of language and elements of pragmatics.