Yesterday I wrote about finger puppet pouches. I mentioned that they are great for building your child's narrative skills, but didn't elaborate. Well, narrative skills are one of the six essential skills children need before they can learn to read.
What are Narrative Skills?
Learning to tell a story helps children develop thinking and comprehension skills. Picture book sharing can play a huge role in a child’s ability to describe things and events and to tell stories. Reading storybooks helps children gain a sense of story structure: a beginning, a middle (or problem) and an end (or resolution). Narrative Skills involve the ability to describe things and events, and to tell stories. They help children understand what they read.
It's about…
- Retelling stories.
- Retelling events.
- Adding descriptions.
- Telling stories or events in sequence.
What can parents and caregivers do to help children learn narrative skills?
Read favourite books again and again.
Stories help children understand that things happen in order first, next, last. Being able to tell or retell a story help children understand what they read.
- Use props from around home to help your child remember and retell stories.
- Encourage your children to say repeated words along with you as you read.
- Have your child do actions as they repeat a phrase along with you as you read.
- Use fewer books and expand on the more.
- Use the dialogic reading. Click here or here for more information.
Why do we do a story retell? Click here.
What book does your child like to read again and again?
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