Narrative Development -test 4
Direct consequence
".. he got away"
Initiating event
"...he got kidnapped by these pirates"
Reaction
"And he lived on an island with his dog. And they played in the sand every day"
What is interanal motivation
"Why are they doing this?"
what is mental state ?
"happy?, angry ?, lonely? "
Internal response
"he missed his dog"
internal plan
"so he decided to escape "
Setting statement
"there was this boy and"
attempt
"when they were all eating , he cut the ropes and"
What are the Narrative types ?
-Spontaneous account of personal experience -Prompted recount of past experience or story -Event Cast -Stories
A good narrative has...
-coherence -cohesion -story grammar
Coherence varies across Genres.
-conversations vs Narratives and expository discourse -which one is harder ? Narratives -differences in production
3-5 yrs use..
-still use centering -use chaining 1-2-3
What is macrostructure ?
Organization of the story , story grammar , all the parts , whole narrative together.
What is Coherence ?
Syntax and morphology improves meaning (semantics). Story structure , Do things seem connected...
What is sparkle?
What makes it interesting , the vocabulary , variety , how descriptive , rich , sentence structure types.
what is literal story comprehension ?
answer is literally in front of you
8-10 year old...
at 8- start to see internal motive , TOM , think about what they are reading -embedding (story within a story) -multiple coordinated episodes at 9- more complex everything
Discourse level development
big picture , more toward true story , 5 yr old- more connecting b/t sentences , more co-reference , more complex compound.
5-6 year old ...
can recount familiar or significant events on sequence. lots of story grammar missing.
2-3year old uses ..
centering
What is story grammar ?
components and rules , from a narrative framework , the internal structure of a story.
Maxims of conversations also apply to _____ a _______ or expository discourse.
creating a narrative
What is Event Cast ?
explain ANTICIPATED event (imaginative play) "hypothetical" -hasn't happened or wont happen
What is microstructure ?
how the story LINKs together (cohesion of story as a whole)
What is Cohesion?
linguistic devices to LINK sentences. Words you use to link things together. -sentence level development -discourse level development
What is chaining ?
link sentences together by time -temporal chain
What is inferential story comprehension?
prediction of story plot
What are grices maxims ?
quality , quantity, relation , manner
What are stories ?
Create fictional narrative. Contain:plot,challenge, embedded stories
What are the three characteristics that distinguish narratives of children with language disorders?
1. macrostructure , maturity level 2.cohesion :microstructure 3."sparkle"
Sentence Level Development for a 3-5 year old ?
3-5 -working at sentence level by 5- using grammar, not connecting b/t sentences , can show connecting within sentence, not organized ideas across sentence. 5years- compound , complex, passive, issues with co-reference .
Story grammar has ...
A Setting : place and time , characters Episode 1 : initiating event , a problem , resolution Episode 2 : same *internal motivation and mental state