EMC Literacy: Listening & Speaking
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Know that listening and speaking are more than the aural and oral aspects of _______
✓ communication
Understand that these two processes are closely _____ & they are _____ to language
acquisition and to all aspects of literacy development
✓ interrelated; foundational
Assess listening and speaking skills and the ____ for learning these skills
✓ strategies
Assess listening and speaking separately, in connection with each other and in _____ with
the other language arts
✓ combination
Realize that listening and speaking are an essential part of a rich, robust language arts
curriculum and should ____ throughout the content curricula
✓ extend
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Aware that oral language is the foundation for ____ literacy skills
✓ all
Understand the literature that examines the _____ between oral language development and
the acquisition of reading and writing skills, both for native English speakers and for students
learning English as a new language
✓ connection
Understand speaking and listening are the primary means by which many children make
_____ of the world and communicate with others and that development of oral language
supports further development in reading, writing, listening and viewing
✓ sense
Recognize that the activities of speaking and listening help students develop auditory
______, construct meaning and develop relationships
✓ discrimination
Realize that listening is more than the _____ act of hearing
✓ physical
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Understand that listening is a process that involves receiving, attending to, understanding,
analyzing, evaluating, and _____ to sounds and messages
✓ reacting
Are knowledgeable about the various types of listening such as informational, _____, and
social
✓ critical
Recognize that students need to communicate _____ through speaking
✓ effectively
Know that effective speaking involves such factors as fluency, clarity, appropriate volume
and speed and awareness of ______, purpose, and context
✓ audience
Know that children initially ______ the rules of English grammar and need explicit
instruction in words that are exception to those rules, such as irregular past tense verb
forms, irregular plural nouns and irregular comparative adjectives and adverbs such as better
and well.
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