There is a strong relationship between oral language and the reading process. Young readers need to have a vocabulary to pull from when decoding and encoding words. The more you understand or can connect to from conversations you've had or dialogue you have witnessed and understood the better you will understand a text you are reading. If a text is difficult and holds a challenging vocabulary it will be hard for a young reader to figure out the meaning, but if the reader can figure out how to pronounce the word and recognize it, they will be able to figure out the meaning.
Oral language is incredibly important and a major building block in children. It is important in both children acquiring a new language as well as those continuing to develop their first, or native, language. Adults can share so much in speaking with children. Exposing the many phonemes of a language in the words they share, along with explaining things through their speech, allows children to pick up on how to communicate with others and how to understand what others communicate with them. Comprehension is strengthened by having a discussion about reading and by adults retelling their own reading. Reading aloud to young children begins to share words and terms they may not understand, but allows them to gain understanding by showing illustrations and restating what the text is saying in simpler terminology. Another way one can reach out to a young reader is in making an observation or noticing something in or about a book.
The more you talk, the more you learn.
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