Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. List of contributors xi
5. About the authors xv
6. Introduction to narrative, literacy and other skills 1
7. Part I. The importance of oral narratives for literacy, language and socio-cognitive skills
8. Chapter 1. The developing language foundation for reading comprehension 21
9. Chapter 2. Storybooks to promote emergent literacy in kindergarten classrooms 43
10. Chapter 3. Do children’s oral retellings of narrative and informational texts predict scores on a standardized reading comprehension test? 69
11. Chapter 4. Does emotional narrative context influence retention of newly learned words? 91
12. Chapter 5. Enhancing mental state language and emotion understanding of toddlers’ social cognition 109
13. Chapter 6. The effects of bookreading with and without mental state themes on preschoolers’ theory of mind 129
14. Chapter 7. Using narrative thinking in argumentative writing 151
15. Part II. Promoting narrative skills
16. Chapter 8. New frontiers in facilitating narrative skills in children and adolescents 173
17. Chapter 9. Precursors of narrative abilities 201
18. Chapter 10. Enriching parent-child discourse during book sharing 223
19. Chapter 11. Investigating the effectiveness of the Our Story App to increase children’s narrative skills 245
20. Chapter 12. Using a storytelling/story-acting practice to promote narrative and other decontextualized language skills in disadvantaged children 263
21. Chapter 13. Promoting narratives through a short conversational intervention in typically-developing and high-functioning children with ASD 285
22. Subject index 313