Narrative Skills
4 articles in this category
Building Narrative Microstructure: Strategies
Conjunction games, retelling together and watching verb tense: how to strengthen the sentence-level skills that hold a child's story together.
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Narrative Microstructure: Blocks of Storytelling
Conjunctions, pronouns that refer back clearly, consistent tense and words like 'then': the sentence-level glue that makes a child's story easy to follow.
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Helping Children Tell Better Stories: Strategies
Story maps at the kitchen table, bedtime retells and visible story grammar during shared reading: ways to help a child tell a clearer story.
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Narrative Macrostructure: Story Grammar Explained
Setting, character, problem, plan, attempt, resolution: story grammar explained, with the ages at which children usually manage each element.
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