Components of Language Arts Oral Language Includes: speaking, listening, presenting, debating, reciting, drama, read-aloud, phonemic awareness, nursery rhymes and oral games, storytelling, vocabulary, colloquialisms, sayings and proverbs Elements of Oral Language Written Language Includes: learning to read (decoding), reading, comprehension, learning to write (encoding), spelling (conventions), word study composition (genre), grammar, handwriting Writing Reading