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Using Story Frames to Improve Comprehension,

Written Language, and Key Skills

Presented by Carolee Dean, M.S., CCC‐SLP, CALT

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Story Frames for Teaching Literacy

Analyzing and creating stories can boost critical literacy skills for all learners—and this comprehensive resource will show teachers and SLPs how. https://bpub.fyi/StoryFrames

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Introduction

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy
• Speech‐Language Pathologist
• Certified Academic Language Therapist (member of ALTA)
• Previous President of the Southwest Branch of IDA
• Current Representative of the Pacific Region of IDA
• Young Adult Author

Objectives

1. Learn the underlying structure present in almost all stories—and explore how to effectively teach this structure to students to improve comprehension.
2. Understand how using the context of a story facilitates vocabulary development.
3. Explore how teaching self‐questioning (and other strategies) improves both comprehension and written language.
4. Discover activities that will inspire even the most reluctant writers.

Stein & Glenn (1979) Story Grammar includes:

1. Setting
2. Initiating events
3. Internal responses
4. Internal plans
5. Attempts
6. Direct Consequences
7. Reactions

Collaborating with Teachers

Noden (1999) Image Grammar: Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing

Reading Teachers

English Teachers – Freytag’s Pyramid

1. Initiating Event
2. Internal Responses
3. Attempts
4. Outcomes
5. Resolution
6. Reaction

Author of Young Adult Novels

Elements for The Writer’s Journey

The Writer’s Journey from Vogler, C. (2007). The writer’s journey: Mythic structure for writers (3rd ed.). Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions; reprinted by permission.

Table I.1. Comparison of Story Frames and The Writer’s Journey

Evidence

• Pictography (Ukrainetz, 1998) Effective for improving time concepts, sequencing, content quality, and story structure.
• Macrostructure vs. Microstructure (Gillam et al., 2018) vocabulary, complex sentence structure, causal/temporal words, cohesive ties, clarity.
• The Importance of Text Structure Knowledge (Hennessy, 2021).
• Narrative Writing as a Bridge to Expository Writing (Peterson & Peterson, 2016) Re‐tualizing Concept Expository Language As Narration.

Objective 1

Content Rich Vocabulary Instruction

Wright and Neuman (2015)

• Takes place in the context of what is being taught in the classroom.
• Repeated exposures to words and their meanings.
• Analyzing word parts.
• Utilizing words in a variety of contexts.

They recommend repeated readings of books that contain the target word as well as reading several books on the subject.

Vocabulary & Grammar

• Vocabulary Foldables
• Games Odd One Out Word Definitions Words in Sentences Grammaticality Judgement

Objective 3

Vocabulary – Semantic Webs

Story Frames for Teaching Literacy: Enhancing Student Learning Through the Power of Storytelling, by Carolee Dean. Copyright © 2021 by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

Summary Writing

Students working with the Complete Storyboard will use their Plot Pages to write a three-paragraph summary.

Poetry: Exploring the Power of Language and Story Through Verse

From Story Writing to Expository Writing

Figure 7.5. Key Features Worksheet: Narrative nonfiction picture book versus informational text.

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