Narrative Expository Language Flashcards
Expository Language Intervention: Proven Outcomes
- compare/contrast and cause/effect have most evidence
- teaching multiple text structures helps learning
- increased idea unites included following ELI
- inclusion of writing/production practice strengthens comprehension and production gains
Expository Language Intervention: Weaker/Unproven Outcomes
- transfer to untaught text structures is weak
- retention of taught text structures later has not been assessed
- evidence of gains in other domains of language is limited
Common Elements in Expository Interventions
- visual supports
- explicit instruction
- texts/topics selected for stages of difficulty
- chances for repeated practice or partial and whole text elemtns
- discussion of meta-linguistic elements
- introduction of literate language
Sketch and Speak
- purpose: to improve note taking and expository discourse
- Active ingredients: identifying the main idea, responding rapidly and focusing onkey words, adults is providing some structure in advance via graphic organziers
- Evidence: improves notes and expository text use overall but not repsonses to questions on the topic
- does not seem to generalize to new themes
Text Organizers
- organizers can support both production and comprehension
- production organizers tend to lead to an outline for a paragraph
- comprehension/using text to learn
Expository Text Structure Interventions
- Explicit Instruction about Expository Texts: models, visual supports
- Focus is on production
Expository Discourse
- core academic skills
- more varied structures exist and are taught/used
- standardized assessments are not well developed
- introduced as young kindergarten; continue throughout schooling
Narrative Language Intervention: Proven Outcomes
- macrosctructure
- gains on functional narratives for TD, at-risk, and special education students
0 effective for improving English outcomes in multilingual TD children - some evidence that NLI extends to supporting simple expository texts for TD kids
Narrative Language Intervention: Weaker/Unproven Outcomes
- group delivered interventions
- microstructure
- gains on personal narratives
SKILL
- designed as a language intervention
- mainly delivered in small groups or individually
- evidence for improving narrative proficiency
- some support for improvement in other areas
Story CHAMPS
- designed as MTSS Approach
- tier 1: whole class/large group
- tier 2: small group/targeted
- primarily tested with at-risk TD kids-very successful in that space
- good at teaching story grammar
- weaker evidence for other language elements
Common Elements Across NLI Programs
- 2 different kinds of visual supports
- explicit scripted instruction
- stories selected for stages of difficulty
- chances for repeated practice of partial and whole story elements
- discussion of meta-linguistic elements
- introduction of literate language
What is Narrative Language Intervention
- explicit instruction about story grammar elements
- focus is on production
- focus is on traditional western story structure
Dialogic Reading: structured Convo around books: PEER
-P: prompts the child to say something about the text
- E: evaluates the response
- E: expands on the child’s answer by rephrasing it or by adding information
- R: Repeats the prompts to see if the child has learned form the expansion
Dialogic Reading: structured Convo around books: CROWD
- C: Completion Prompts “ fill in the blank” questions
- R: recall questions- recall specific events from the story
- O: open-ended questions
- W: Wh Questions: asking who what, where, when, why and how of the story
-D: Distancing Questions: Ask questions that relate something in the story to your child’s life