Types of Narratives
Meaningful Event
Ex. One time I broke my arm and had to go to the hospital. Have you ever broken a bone? Tell me about it.
Personal Narrative
Sequences of sentences that can be arranged in any order
Additive Chains
Oral or written accounts of connected factual or imaginary events
Narratives
Series of steps
Ex. Tell me how to play baseball.
Script Narrative
Series of actions; order is important (first, next, last)
Temporal Chains
Overall coherence and organization
Develops through preschool and elementary school
Macrostructure
Generation of a story or story retell
Ex. Tell me an adventure story about...
Fictional Narrative
Has a "plot"; a problem has a consequence/solution
Ex. problem & solution; cause & effect
Simple Causal Chains
T/F: The average age of emergence of causal chains is 3 years of age.
False
Causal Chains emerge at 5-6 years of age.
T/F: Story retell is considered to be easier than story generation.
True
Story generation is more complex than story retell.
More than one episode is included in the narrative
Types: conjoined or embedded
Multi-causal Chains
Features of a narrative can include _______________.
*List at least 2 features
Event(s), sequence of actions, thoughts or feelings about the event, temporal vocabulary, grammatical morphology, connecting events and time