Daily Oral Language

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Daily Oral Language

• A Strategy for Mastering COS, SAT-10, and AHSGE
  Content

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Daily Oral Language Lessons

• Daily
• Work well as bell-ringers
• Aligned with COS, SAT-10, AHSGE Item
  Specifications
• Focus on
• Grammar
• Punctuation
• Capitalization
• Mechanics
• Usage

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Procedures (example)

• Sentences on board or overhead when students
  enter
• Students correct errors
• Share revisions
• Check for understanding
• Give direct instruction if needed

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Suggestions

• Set a specific time
• Establish routine procedures
• Use a timer
• Give clear and immediate feedback
• Hold students accountable

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Accountability Key to Success

• Students write the DOLs
• In a notebook
• On a DOL form
• Teacher checks DOLS at end of each week (or two
  weeks).
• Weekly or bi-weekly quiz reflects DOL content
• Expect student writing to reflect DOL content!

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Any Questions about Daily Oral Language?

• Where do I get my DOLs?
• Textbooks
• Online grammar sites
• DOL workbooks
• Student writing (unfortunately, a wonderful
  source of errors!)
• Remember Align DOL with content to be tested.

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• Use a variety of errors
• Recycle errors to keep students on their
  toes
• Get feedback in various ways. Students
• make corrections on overhead
• write answers on board
• write on individual dry erase boards

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Keeping it fun

• Try using student names
  in the error samples
• Allow students to submit samples
• Use humorous sentences or
  interest-grabbing topics
• Use newspaper errors
• Build a non-threatening environment for sharing
  answers

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A DOL Sample

• Students enter class and see this on the board.
  
• DOL 1
• My daughter a student at samford university can
  talk to anyone she never meets a stranger.

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DOL 1

• Students write the sentence in their notebooks.
• Volunteers come one at a time and make a
  correction.
• There may be more than one way to make
  corrections.
• Discuss reasons/rules.

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One sentence. . .
3 mini-lessons!

• My daughter a student at samford university can
  talk to anyone she never meets a stranger.

• Comma use appositive
• Capitalization name of a specific university
• Run-on sentence
• Make two sentences (separate with a period)
• Separate two closely related sentences with a
  semi-colon.
• Etc.

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Final Answer

• Several correct answers are possible
• Students should be able to defend their answers.
• My daughter, a student at Samford University, can
  talk to anyone. She never meets a stranger!

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Thank You, Teachers!

• For more information, contact
• MPS, Office of Curriculum and Instruction, Phone
  223-6834