SESSION FIVE: RETELLING WITH STORY FRAMES
Some participants may experience difficulty verbalizing stories because
they lack fluency in translating the jot notes into coherent speech.
They seem to lack the phrases that link the key information together.
This session on the use of story frames provides such language support.
Specific Objectives:
- Introduce story frames as a strategy to promote fluent oral
retelling
- Reinforce the use of previously introduced strategies such as
Self Questioning, Directed Inquiry questions and story grammar as
frameworks that facilitate comprehension and recall
Procedure
I. Introduction
The instructor:
- Announces that in this session the group will be using story
frames along with their story maps to aid their story retelling and
makes the purpose of the activity explicit:
Some people have difficulty retelling stories. It is
sometimes difficult to link all of the parts. A story frame helps
because it gives us the words to put the story information together.
Gradually we can change the frame to fit different stones.
II. Modeling the Use of a Story Frame
The instructor:
- Distributes copies of the blank story frame (Box 10, Appendix E).
- Points out the similarities among the story frame, story map (Box
8) and the Directed Enquiry questions (Box 5) as comprehension and
retelling aids while referring to each of the charts introduced in
the previous sessions.
NOTE: The instructor may wish to number the statements in
the frame and assign matching numbers to the story map to emphasize the
similarities.
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