Studies with monolingual English speakers have demonstrated the significance of children's narrative development for the acquisition of literacy skills. This research has shown that children's ability to perform school narrative tasks may significantly predict children's early literacy skills (Gutierrez-Clellen, 2002), including English reading…

The effectiveness of using American Sign Language (ASL) handshape stories to teach word recognition in whole stories using a descriptive case study approach was explored. Four profoundly deaf children ages 7 to 8, enrolled in a self-contained deaf education classroom in a public school in the south participated in the story time five-week…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze and interpret the stories told by one teacher, Ms. M, in a fifth grade science classroom. In this study, stories are defined as teacher utterances that are used in first person or third person narrative view, and are related to an experience that occurred outside the classroom. This research…