Supporting children’s oral language develop￾ment during the preschool years is critical for later reading
success. Research shows that preschool teachers may be
missing opportunities to engage children in the kinds of
conversations that foster the development of rich oral
language skills. Teachers hoping to support these skills can
provide children with purposeful conversations that include
sophisticated vocabulary, support children’s interests, use
open-ended questions, and employ cognitively challenging
topics. In a typical preschool classroom, children spend a
large portion of the day working in centers and eating
meals. These non-teacher directed activities provide
teachers with the opportunity to engage children in high
quality, multi-turn conversational interactions. This article
provides strategies and examples for preschool teachers to
better support the oral language development of preschool
children during these non-teacher directed settings.

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• Supporting Children’s Oral Language Development in the Preschool Classroom

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