Teaching Oral Language: Building a Firm Foundation Using ICPALER in the Early Primary Years

Oral language skills are an essential foundation for successful school learning. However, until recently, the acquisition of oral language skills has been largely overshadowed by reading, writing, spelling, and numeracy. In Teaching Oral Language, Dr. John Munro redresses this imbalance through the delivery of his step-by-step model: ICPALER (Ideas-Conventions-Purposes-Ability to Learn-Expression and Reception).