In:Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention
Edited by Edy Veneziano and Ageliki Nicolopoulou
[Studies in Narrative 25] 2019
► pp. v–vii
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Published online: 6 May 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.25.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
About the authors
Introduction to narrative, literacy and other skills: Studies in intervention
Edy Veneziano
Ageliki Nicolopoulou
Part I.The importance of oral narratives for literacy, language and socio-cognitive skills
Chapter 1.The developing language foundation for reading comprehension: Vocabulary, complex syntax and extended discourse from preschool to grade one
David K. Dickinson
Kerry G. Hofer
Bretta L. Rivera
Chapter 2.Storybooks to promote emergent literacy in kindergarten classrooms
Hélène Makdissi
Andrée Boisclair
Pauline Sirois
Marie-Pierre Baron
Claudia Sanchez
Chapter 3.Do children’s oral retellings of narrative and informational texts predict scores on a standardized reading comprehension test?
Helen Chen Kingston
James S. Kim
Mary Burkhauser
Betany Mulimbi
David M. Quinn
Chapter 4.Does emotional narrative context influence retention of newly learned words?
Katharina J. Rohlfing
Kerstin Nachtigäller
Anna Berner
Anouschka Foltz
Chapter 5.Enhancing mental state language and emotion understanding of toddlers’ social cognition: The role of narrative and conversation
Ilaria Grazzani
Veronica Ornaghi
Alessia Agliati
Elisa Brazzelli
Maria Lucarelli
Chapter 6.The effects of bookreading with and without mental state themes on preschoolers’ theory of mind
Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates
Ageliki Nicolopoulou
Chapter 7.Using narrative thinking in argumentative writing
Sarah Surrain
Leslie Duhaylongsod
Robert L. Selman
Catherine E. Snow
Part II.Promoting Narrative skills
Chapter 8.New frontiers in facilitating narrative skills in children and adolescents: A dynamic systems account incorporating eight narrative developmental stages
Keith E. Nelson
Kiren S. Khan
Chapter 9.Precursors of narrative abilities: Non-present talk, temporality development and topic elaboration in early parent-child interaction
Akke de Blauw
Anne Baker
Judith Rispens
Chapter 10.Enriching parent-child discourse during book sharing: The impact on children’s story comprehension and narrative skills
Yaara Fine
Dorit Aram
Magalit Ziv
Chapter 11.Investigating the effectiveness of the Our Story app to increase children’s narrative skills: Lessons learnt from one English preschool classroom
Natalia Kucirkova
David Messer
Kieron Sheehy
Chapter 12.Using a storytelling/story-acting practice to promote narrative and other decontextualized language skills in disadvantaged children
Ageliki Nicolopoulou
Chapter 13.Promoting narratives through a short conversational intervention in typically-developing and high-functioning children with ASD
Edy Veeziano
Marie Hélène Plumet
