Read Textbook Chapter 7. Weekly Papers - 3 Questions Reflection Questions:
1. How can Cambournes conditions of learning be used to help teachers create an environment that promotes the authentic use of oral and written language? According to Cambourne (1988), children obtain early oral and written language most easily when certain conditions are present in their environment (school and home), and these conditions can be used by teachers to help their students to develop language and literacy skills:
- Immersion: students need to be surrounded by rich with learning and language environment (charts, posters, learning centers)
- Demonstration: students need to observe occurring learning (teachers’ modeling)
- Engagement: students
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Oral language include a few areas, such as: phonology that includes the system of sounds within a language; phonemic awareness is the most complex level of phonological awareness and include blending, segmenting, manipulating sounds; semantics (developing expressive and receptive vocabulary); syntax (set of rules to follow to combine words and phrases into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs); morphology (focuses on the smallest units within a word, and rules how to form words); discourse (oral and written …show more content…
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