Every Child Ready to Read-Narrative Skills

Narrative Skills is the ability to describe events and tell stories. Being able to talk about what happens in a story helps a child understand what they read. Every book has a story, even wordless picture books "tell" a story by pictures.  From stories, we learn that an action or event has a start, a middle, and an ending. We learn that actions can also repeat ( this can found it a lot of stories or songs that have sequences, such as " There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Spider").

Some tips for practicing Narrative Skills at home:

• Ask your child about their day, encourage then to add detail to their story.
• Read wordless picture books and have your child tell the story.
• Act out the story with dolls or puppets

Some books that are good for Narrative Skills ( see more at  http://www.lcplin.org/children/ecrr-narrative.htm):

 Good Night, Gorilla- Peggy Rathmann
  There was An Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat- Lucille Colandro
   First the Egg- Laura Seeger
   The Snowman- Raymond Briggs