Narrative & Discourse Skills
Constructing extended spoken texts — telling stories, explaining processes, and recounting experiences.
Examples & Achievements
- Tells a personal story with beginning, middle, and end
- Retells a familiar story in correct sequence
- Explains how to do something step by step ("first you... then you...")
- Describes an event so that a listener who was not there can understand
- Uses connecting words (then, so, because, but) in narratives
How to Measure
- Narrative scoring scheme (story grammar elements present)
- Retells a 3-event story in correct sequence
- Includes 2+ story grammar elements (character, setting, problem, resolution)
- TNL-2 (Test of Narrative Language)
Sources (3)
- SLP Standards
- Head Start ELOF
- EYFS