Students received six instructional sessions that involved the teacher modeling a story and supporting the students while they retold and generated oral stories. Oral narratives are an early and pervasive aspect of children’s life in both, family and educational contexts, and children’s narrative competence sho… The subjects were 18 children.
On measures of both story grammar and language. Spencer, moran, petersen and smith (2016) investigated the impact of oral narrative instruction on year 1 students’ story writing. Results showed that the story grammar intervention improved the quality of narrative summaries and that better summaries came from easier text than harder text.
The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of story grammar instruction on the story grammar sequence and story comprehension ability of children. Drawing upon tasks used in story grammar research, whaley [ej 242 180] constructed a number of classroom activities to enhance children's knowledge of story structure.