Session 2: Narrative Language

Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade practice guide:

Recommendation 1: Teach students academic language skills, including the use of inferential and narrative language, and word knowledge

• How-to Step 2: Explicitly engage students in developing narrative language skills.

Materials

• Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade practice guide pages 9-11
• Professional Learning Communities Facilitator’s Guide pages 11-18
  • Video 3: Narrative Language, Connectives
  • Video 4: Narrative Language, Prediction, Kindergarten
  • Video 5: Narrative Language, Retell, Grade 1
  • Video 6: Narrative Language, Main Idea, Grade 1
  • Video 7: Narrative Language, Cause & Effect, Grade 3
• Professional Learning Communities Participant’s Activities
  • Activity 3: Prepare to Share (completed) pg. 3
  • Activity 4: Narrative Language Skills Examples, pg. 4
  • Activity 5: Video Viewing Guide, Narrative Language Skills, Prediction, pg. 5
  • Activity 6: Video Viewing Guide, Narrative Language Skills, Retell, pg. 6
  • Activity 7: Video Viewing Guide, Narrative Language Skills, Main Idea, pg. 7
  • Activity 8: Video Viewing Guide, Narrative Language Skills, Cause & Effect, pg. 8
  • Activity 9: Narrative Language Skills Lesson Plan Template: Small Group, pg. 9
  • Activity 10: Narrative Language Skills Lesson Template and text (story or factual) to teach one of the following: prediction, retell, main idea, or cause and effect, pg. 10
  • Activity 11: Prepare to Share and text (story or factual) to teach one of the following: prediction, retell, main idea, or cause and effect, pg. 11
  • PowerPoint Slides for Session 2