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LET'S TALK ABOUT IT!
Let's Talk About It! Oral Language~Reading and Writing Program for Grades K-3 is a sequential, structured approach to build students’ oral language capacities and developing their ability to distinguish print, expand print concepts, and develop a sense of author. Let’s Talk About It! is essential for low language, at-risk native speakers and is ideal for all English language learners.

	Oral Language~Reading & Writing Kit A Oral Language~Reading & Writing Kit B Oral Language~Reading & Writing Kit C Oral Language~Reading & Writing Kit D Each kit contains: Let’s Talk About It! Photo Chart Text Cards Oral Language~Reading Lesson Booklets Oral Language~Writing Lesson Booklets Oral Language~Reading Guide.

Let’s Talk About It! Photo Chart
Forty-eight engaging photos in each chart to inspire discussion.

Photos fall into three categories: Science, Social Studies, and Day in the Life.
Introduces standard oral English sentence structures.
Develops oral comprehension
Links thought, talk and print.
Builds vocabulary.
Demonstrates print concepts.
Increases oral and reading fluency.
Integrates Oral Language with the writing process
Develops a sense of author

Text Cards
A double-sided card accompanies each of the photos.Two sentences of varying difficulty are on either side of the card.The teachers selects the text card that closely matches the oral language level of the students. Text cards are also available in Spanish. Oral Language Lesson Booklets
Two lesson booklets accompanies each photo in the chart-an Oral Language~Reading lesson and an Oral Language~Writing
lesson. The lessons follow a standard instructional sequence:

Oral Language~Reading

Students generate thoughts and share ideas.
Teacher records students’ thoughts.
Students and teacher read their thoughts.
Together they create a “library” based on students’ own ideas, thoughts, and experiences.
Students interpret ideas of authors through the text cards.

Oral Language~Writing

Builds on the language work established through the use of the Oral Language~Reading instructional strategy

Students generate thoughts and share ideas.
Students record thoughts either as a group or individually.
Students revisit the written text, making sure it makes sense, says what they meant and can be read by others.
Students publish the text.

This sequence reinforces the students’ understanding that their thoughts can be talked about, written about, and read about, thereby developing and reinforcing oral language and print concept development.

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