Organizing Idea
Oral language: Listening and speaking form the foundation for literacy development and improve communication, collaboration, and respectful mutual understanding.


Learning Outcome
Students examine and apply listening and speaking skills, processes, or strategies in a variety of formal and informal interactions.


Knowledge
Throughout history, languages developed orally before being written.

Stories can last and be retold over long periods of time.

Oral traditions support interactions between generations of people such as:
- ancestors
- grandparents
- parents or guardians
- children
- kin

Traditional knowledge shared through oral traditions can:
- vary in form or delivery
- build community
- serve as a guide for living and learning