A Unique Child - Narrative intervention - What's the story?

Nursery World, 11 September 2008

Speech and language skills are the focus of a unique programme that takes children through the core elements of storytelling, says Annette Rawstrone.

'An inability to retell a story in a kindergarten child must serve as an alarm signal for all who are concerned with that child's progress through school. This alarm signal is all the more critical when the failure is accompanied by other measures suggesting delays in syntax, low levels of vocabulary development or difficulties in language learning in general.' Rita C Naremore, 'Language Intervention With School-Aged Children: Conversation, Narrative and Text' Nursery children in Preston are learning...

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