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Schachter, Rachel E.; Craig, Holly K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: This study examined child production of narrative features and of African American English (AAE) during a wordless storybook oral narrative task. Method: Participants were 30 AAE-speaking African American kindergarten and 1st grade students from low- and mid-socioeconomic status homes. Story grammar (SG), story literary technique (SLT),…
Descriptors: African American Students, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Stadler, Marie A.; Ward, Gay Cuming – Reading Horizons, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of props on children's narrative retells. Forty-two children in two comparable K/1 classrooms heard and practiced the same stories over eight weeks. This study found that the props had a positive effect on the children's use of descriptive language, but there was no effect on the number…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten