Loud & Proud: Strategies for Developing Linguistic Competence in the Preschool Classroom

This is the link to the recording of the Loud & Proud: Strategies for Developing Linguistic Competence in the Preschool Classroom webinar to refer back to.

This Webinar and Slideshow were created in collaboration with the US Embassy in San Jose, the Ministry of Public Education in Costa Rica, and the Institute for Collaborative learning all around the world.

If you watch our webinar after the live presentation, please let us know you joined-in with our learning and share some feedback so we can stay connected. 

This website from the creators of the ECRIF Framework, Josh Kurzweil & Mary Scholl, presents the framework we use at I4CL to frame how we  see learners in their process of learning. Reimagined from the student perspective, ECRIF guides how we plan, facilitate, observe, and reflect upon learning experiences.

“The ECRIF framework is a way of looking at how people learn. Rather than prescribing what teachers should or should not do, the aim of this framework is to provide a tool that teachers can use to see student activities and content from the perspective of student learning" (Kurzweil & Scholl, 2007).

This video created by the US Department of State’s American English E-Teacher program offers several guidelines to help you when planning lessons and sequencing activities to scaffold language learning.

In this National Geographic Learning video, Joan Kang Shin shares several ways to use puppets with young learners to facilitate oral production.

This article from Colorín Colorado covers 5 strategies to support the development of classroom speaking, with several specific application suggestions  for each. (There are also an additional 3 strategies related to literacy development, as well).

This Video from National Geographic Learning’s Young Learner Series lets us peek into the classroom to observe how one teacher uses pictures cards to create a scaffolded sequence of meaningful productive activities.

This article from Reading Rockets explores the foundational components of oral competency as well as what contextual factors support the development of those components.

This video from The Balanced Literacy Diet modells a technique of using a “mystery bag” show and tell guessing game to create structured oral interaction between classmates in a teacher facilitated structure.

This handout from the U.S. Department of Education presents a systematic approach to transforming “thin” conversations typical of learners developing a language into “thick” conversations that provide richer input and interaction.

This collection of videos from Easter Connecticut State University discusses several topics related to oral competency of young learners: language-rich environments, interactive read-alouds, story-telling, and dual-language learning contexts.

This article from Colorín Colorado offers 5potential solutions to common challenges in the early language development phase of young learners, like classroom silence, differentiated instruciton, and contexts of language use.

This article shared from Continental Press lays out in broad strokes the stages of language acquisition in the English Language Learner context.