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The following document from Sun West School Division provides a number of strategies and activities for teaching oral language development.

Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers, developed by Reading Rockets. The program provides teachers with an in-depth knowledge of reading and writing so they are prepared to guide their students into becoming skilled and enthusiastic readers and writers.
Course Modules include:
- Print Awareness
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Comprehension
- Writing
- Assessment

What is Write-Around Discussion?
This strategy provides students with opportunity to either activate prior knowledge on a topic or consolidate recently-learned information. This strategy is for use with small groups of students.

Why use it?
To provide students with the opportunity to practice the skills of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.
To help students consolidate learning of new material by immediate use of the information.
To help students activate prior knowledge on a topic to be discussed in class.
To provide all students in class with an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of a particular topic.