Oral+Expression

=Oral Expression=

Definition and Implications (CDE)
Oral expression pertains to the use of words and includes the ability to formulate and produce words and sentences with appropriate vocabulary, grammar and application of conversational rules.

A child’s oral expression skills are essential to their learning and academic success. Oral expression problems in students may result in literacy problems (ASHA, 1980). Furthermore, these children may not perform at grade level because of their struggle with reading, difficulty understanding and expressing language, and the fact that they may misunderstand social cues. Oral expression is about the student’s ability to express ideas, explain thinking (critical in math), retell stories, and contrast and compare concepts or ideas.

Characteristics relating to reading comprehension include:
 * Characteristics**
 * Vocabulary
 * Formulating complete, semantically and grammatically correct sentences (spoke/written)
 * Retelling, making inferences, and predicting