Developing Narrative Skills A program for 6 to 8 year olds.

This learning resource contains a instructional manual, 11 colour narrative structure A4 cards and a story narrratives A3 colour poster. The narrative program has been specifically designed for 6 to 8 year olds and is the third in a series of four resources. Research reports that narrative ability correlates with literacy and academic achievement. In addition, narrative programs typically enhance comprehension and written expression ability.

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Instructional Manual

Designed by Speech Pathologists, the program empowers educators with a process that explicitly instructs this vital skill. The program presents a range of narrative tasks in the order of ascending complexity (i.e. pre-narrative, oral narrative retells, written narrative retells and finally narrative generation tasks). The manual outlines how to instruct 6 to 8 year old narrative ability and recommends over 45 suitable picture books. It includes summaries on how the narrative structure relates to each book. The accompanying cards and poster make this an ideal all in one teaching resource. Other resources in this range are:

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Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills A program for 4 year olds. Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills A program for 5 year olds. Developing Narrative Skills - A program for 9 to 12 year olds. Visit our website www.pld-literacy.org to view these and other learning resources.

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Overview Of Contents
Introduction
A Note From The Author The structure of Story Narratives for 6 to 8 year olds Observations which constitute a potential Speech Pathology referral Overview of the stages of narrative development Teaching narrative over a full school year 2 3 4 5 6

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Recommended news telling resources News writing formats 1 to 9 8 9-20

Stage 0: Preparation For Narratives: News Telling and News Writing

Stage 1: Develop An Understanding Of Narrative Structure Through Oral Retells Of Familiar Picture Books

Recommended books for 6 to 8 year olds

Recommended use for resources contained within this package

Narrative structure card set instructions

6 to 8 Year Old Narative Structure applied to familiar picture books

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Multiple examples of how the recommended picture books fit the story schema components

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Stage 2: Full Oral Retells Of Familiar Picture Books Followed By Partial Rewrites Of Familiar Picture Books Consisting Of: Beginning or Introduction Problem or Complication Character(s) Feelings and Thoughts Subsequent Events
Suggestions to support quality of writing output Narrative summary formats 1 to 8 76 77-94

Stage 3: Application Of 6 To 8 Year Old Narrative Structure to Narrative Generation Tasks With: Multiple Pictures For Support A Single Picture For Support No Pictorial Support
Formats for planning and writing narratives 96-112

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Narrative Story Structure for Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

The text below outlines the language model teachers should provide for students aged between 6 to 8 years. Students of this age should be able to produce a retell containing the introduction, a problem, insights into the character(s) feelings/thoughts, three events and an ending.

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When? Once upon a time Who? a duck What? lived and worked Where? on a farm in the country. Remember: Ask the children to recall at least 5 jobs (household or farm based) that the duck attended to.

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Character(s) Feelings Character(s) Thoughts
The duck felt exhausted, frustrated, annoyed, upset and confused.

The poor duck had to do all the work while the lazy farmer stayed in bed and ate chocolates.

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They waited until it was nearly dawn/sun rise. The animals quietly crept into the house and up the stairs. They climbed under the farmers bed so that they could push him out of bed and then chased him off the farm.

The next morning the animals found the duck (by himself as usual doing his jobs) and explained that the farmer was longer on the farm.

Character(s) Feelings
The duck felt excited, relieved, thrilled and proud.

Character(s) Thoughts
The duck thought how lucky he was to have such great friends, or that he could do the jobs together with his friends, or that he was glad that the farmer was no longer able to boss him around.
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Narrative Structural Analysis

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One night the ducks friends (the cow, the sheep and the hens) gathered in the barn/shed and made a plan to chase the farmer off his farm.

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Implied: the duck wished that he didnt have to do all the jobs by himself and that he could get some help. He wished that the farmer wasnt so lazy and mean to him.

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Narrative Stage 3: Format 1a - Generating a narrative plan consisting of a beginning and a problem.
Preparation for a written narrative task: Summarize the key story elements.

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When? Who? What? Where?

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Narrative Stage 3: Format 1b - Writing a generated narrative consisting of a beginning and a problem.
Write a single sentence under each section.

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