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Price, Johanna R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Jackson, Sandra C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: This study examined the structural development of African American preschoolers' narratives. It also investigated the effect of background variables (e.g., gender, maternal education, stimulation and responsiveness of the home environment, and whether or not the child lived in poverty) on the children's narratives. Method: Sixty-five…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, African American Children
Dickey, Michele D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2006
The purpose of this conceptual analysis is to investigate how contemporary video and computer games might inform instructional design by looking at how narrative devices and techniques support problem solving within complex, multimodal environments. Specifically, this analysis presents a brief overview of game genres and the role of narrative in…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Computer Assisted Instruction, Problem Solving, Educational Technology
Newman, Robyn M.; McGregor, Karla K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: To examine the functional impact of specific language impairment (SLI). Specific goals were to determine whether (a) subjective ratings of narrative quality differentiate children with SLI from their normally developing (ND) age-mates, (b) laypersons and teachers differ in their ratings of narrative quality, (c) objective measures confirm…
Descriptors: Young Children, Narration, Language Impairments, Comparative Analysis
Kinney, Martha A.; Schmidt, John – 1986
A three-stage lesson sequence that used story grammars to teach plot development has been proved successful with a group of eight above average third grade students reading Deborah and James Howe's "Bunnicula." The first stage was a training unit designed to familiarize children with a typical story grammar's parts: a theme and plot…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Novels, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension

Kemper, Susan; Edwards, Linda L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1986
The article explores the development of children's understanding of causality, its effect on narrative development and organization; and the development of intentional, goal directed behavior. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Child Development, Concept Formation, Etiology

Mandler, Jean M. – Discourse Processes, 1987
Respectively, three experiments indicate that (1) people can identify all the terminal units in stories as well as different kinds of episodic structure; (2) when attention was focused on the intermediate units, the Goal Path emerged in the judgments; and (3) the same judgments about terminal units were made even when the number of sentences per…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Psychological Studies, Reading Comprehension
Cross, Peggy Estes – 1999
The purpose of this study was to investigate what effect providing supplemental background knowledge in the form of a book talk would have on first graders' listening comprehension following a read aloud. Research shows that providing background knowledge creates a foundation and/or builds upon previously set schema on which further information…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Listening Comprehension, Primary Education
Normand, Regan – State of Reading, 1997
Describes how the author used many versions of the Cinderella story as a springboard for a variety of activities in her sixth-grade class, including discussion of fairy tale elements, aspects of story structure, summarizing, and problem-solving activities. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Fairy Tales, Folk Culture

Goodson, F. Todd – Exercise Exchange, 1997
Presents an activity designed to help students begin to see connections between traditional print and electronic communication environments. Aims also to introduce students to collaborative writing and sharpen narrative writing skills. Gives a step-by-step progression of the activity which begins with groups creating a character sketch. (PA)
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Computer Mediated Communication

Porath, Marion – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1996
Comparison of 14 verbally gifted 6-year olds with equal numbers of chronological-age and mental-age controls using a structural-developmental analysis found that the gifted children organized story plots in ways typical of children 2 years older, elaborated on basic plot structures more than control groups, and demonstrated advanced language…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Gifted, Language Skills
Laughton, Joan; Morris, Nancy T. – Learning Disabilities Research, 1989
Comparison of the written stories of 96 learning-disabled and 96 non-learning-disabled students found significant differences at grades 3, 4, and 5 in students' inclusion of a complete story grammar. No differences were found at grade 6. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Elementary Education

Waters, Harriet Salatas; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1993
Third graders produced narrative or descriptive passages in response to prompt words. Results supported the domain-specific view of production, in which content elaboration occurs across repeated productions when there is a connection between the earlier and the later production and that connection is based on semantic similarity. (ME)
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Narration
Graves, Anne; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research, 1990
Twenty learning-disabled students (grades 5 and 6) who received procedural facilitation for narrative composition, including story grammar cue cards and a metacognitive check-off procedure, produced better quality stories than a control group of 10 students. Including verbal reminders to develop characters did not affect story quality. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cues, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition

Gutierrez-Clellen, Vera F.; Iglesias, Aquiles – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Forty-six Spanish-speaking children ages four, six, or eight years viewed a short silent film and told what happened in the film. The stories of older children included more narrative actions, more mental state/goal causes, more three-clause causal sequences, and a lower proportion of unrelated statements than those of younger children.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Coherence, Developmental Stages, Narration

Vallecorsa, Ada L.; Garriss, Elizabeth – Exceptional Children, 1990
This study of the story composition abilities of 46 students (aged 11-14) with learning disabilities found that subjects had a rudimentary knowledge of story form, but this knowledge was less developed than that of their nondisabled peers. Subjects also had greater coherence problems in their writing and were less fluent writers. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Comparative Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools