Oral language: The foundations of reading and reading intervention

Oral language skills are essential for learning to read. Professor Maggie Snowling explains how we can intervene to help a child become a fluent reader- focusing on oral language skills and phonics skills. Sub-skills include: active listening, narrative skills, vocabulary, phoneme awareness and letter-sound knowledge.
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[@geraldinedoyle4368]

I completely agree. Oral language is the foundation stone of reading and time and energy must be invested in it's development

[@daisyevans8663]

Disagree a bit with this. Writing is the key to reading
Human beings learned to write before anyone could read. Making your own words is far more creative than passively accepting someone else's words. Good young writers are good readers. Teach writing first. And don't teach reading as a skill in itself until children are older.(One of few Steinery ideas I have picked up).

[@cathrynbjarnesen6948]

Totally agree with Snowling, this approach is based upon decades of research and current cognitive neuroscience.....

[@andrewmorse6882]

How can you write in words before you can read?

[@simonaboroianu45]

@@andrewmorse6882 montessorium.com/community-post/montessori-teaches-writing-before-reading ; also Dorn : "Scaffolding Young Writers". While I agree that reading/writing go hand in hand, writing is not just about putting words together, it is a more complex process/skill that goes beyond memorizing sounds and words. Bottom line however, research demonstrates that there is a similar timeline of acquiring both reading and writing.