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Wolman, Clara – Journal of Special Education, 1991
This study, involving 16 intermediate-grade children with mild mental retardation, 29 children with learning disabilities, and 37 children without disabilities, found that all groups recalled cohesive story versions better than noncohesive versions. Statements in the stories' causal chain were better recalled than statements not in the causal…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Intermediate Grades
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Davies, Peter; Shanks, Becky; Davies, Karen – Educational Review, 2004
A substantial number of 5-7 year old children experience delayed language development which threatens their progress in school, although they have not been placed on speech and language therapy caseloads. Children with delayed language development typically have a limited ability to understand and tell stories. Intervention to develop the oral…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Intervention, Young Children
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Young, Edna Carter; Diehl, Joshua J.; Morris, Danielle; Hyman, Susan L.; Bennetto, Loisa – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2005
Purpose: Pragmatic language disorders (PLDs) are difficult to diagnose in a cost-effective manner, and there are few assessment tools that yield quantitative data. This investigation was designed to determine whether two formal assessment tools would differentiate PLDs in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) from controls matched on…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Tests, Autism, Language Impairments
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Klecan-Aker, Joan S.; Gill, Cynthia – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2005
This investigation determined the effects of a treatment programme, "The Expression Connection" (1991), on the language organization of a firstgrade male child with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). The methodology consisted of teaching the child story grammar components and the associated syntax requisite of their use. Treatment was…
Descriptors: Syntax, Story Grammar, Language Role, Language Impairments
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Johnson, Greer Cavallaro – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2004
This paper reports on a study that attempts to encourage teachers to use a visual and verbal approach to storytelling as a method of critical reflection. It demonstrates and discusses how one teacher uses the visual images to comment critically, adding a playfully ironic dimension to a verbal perspective of everyday teaching activities. Many…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Visual Aids, Reflective Teaching
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Uzuner, Yildiz; Icden, Guzin; Girgin, Umit; Beral, Ayse; Kircaali-Iftar, Gonul – International Journal of Special Education, 2005
According to recent studies, individuals with hearing loss seem to benefit from certain models or strategies, such as text related questions, designed according to the balanced literacy approach. Questions about story grammar that are asked after reading help readers organize and summarize the text. Therefore, it has been found worth to explore…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Questioning Techniques, Hearing Impairments, Females
Groeber, Joan F. – Corwin Press, 2006
Literacy consultant Joan Groeber provides educators with a teacher-friendly, step-by-step guide for creating and using rubrics to assess a wide range of literacy skills. Groeber's approach helps ensure that students gain a clear understanding of teacher expectations and assume a greater responsibility for their own learning. Offering an overview…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Student Evaluation, Literacy, Models
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Saddler, Bruce – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2006
In this replication study, supplemental writing instruction in strategic planning was used to improve the story writing ability of young writers with learning disabilities (LD) and poor writing skills. Six 2nd-grade students with learning disabilities who experienced difficulty with story writing were taught a strategy for planning and writing…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Learning Disabilities, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Bidell, Thomas R.; Hubbard, Lady June; Weaver, Monica – 1997
A study examined the scripts or schemata--cognitive structures that represent story prototypes--used by African-American children and how they differ from story telling patterns of White middle-class children using a Western, linear "problem solving" story schemata. Samples of oral narratives were collected from 50 African-American…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits
Wilkinson, Ian A. G.; And Others – 1995
A study was conducted to identify poor readers and to characterize weaknesses in their knowledge and use of story structure in comprehension and recall. Subjects were 80 year-3 children in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 good readers and 60 poor readers. The poor readers were then divided into relatively homogeneous subgroups, using measures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Low Achievement, Primary Education
Smart, Karl – 1990
One of the greatest myths or fictions of nonfiction is that it contains no fiction. Ben Franklin's flight from Boston to Philadelphia illustrates how changes occur in the retelling of the "facts" of a life. In his "Autobiography," Franklin writes that his friend, Collins, arranged for a ship's passage for Franklin by telling…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Biographies, Discourse Analysis, Literary Devices
Rekrut, Martha D. – 1992
This study was conducted to examine tutoring as a pedagogical tool to enhance learning in the tutor. Three groups of high school students were subjects of the study. The first group, instructed in a story grammar and its use as a recall apparatus, taught the strategy to younger students; the second, an equivalent group, was given strategy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh. – 1994
Providing information to help develop students' sense of narrative and to show them specific test-taking strategies, this publication is helpful to teachers as they ready their students for the North Carolina Fourth Grade Writing Assessment. The publication provides materials on generating ideas for writing, selecting topics, revising, developing…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Story Grammar, Test Wiseness
Loveland, Katherine A.; And Others – 1989
Sixteen subjects with autism and 16 with Down Syndrome (aged 5 to 27), matched on verbal mental age, watched a short puppet show or video skit and were then asked to tell the story to a listener and answer follow-up questions. The majority of both groups were able to produce recognizable, though primitive, narratives. The groups did not differ in…
Descriptors: Autism, Body Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Durkin, Dolores – 1990
A vast amount of reading comprehension research was reported in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The study reported in this paper used the basal reading programs considered by California for adoption in 1988 as a vehicle for examining how the comprehension research had affected basal materials. Five series that were completely new and that…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials
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