Nursery World - Telling yarns

Language therapists are breaking stories into pieces to help children having difficulties. Jackie Cosh reports The ability to sustain a dialogue and move it along in a meaningful way is often a specific problem for children who have communication difficulties.

The ability to sustain a dialogue and move it along in a meaningful way is often a specific problem for children who have communication difficulties.

To help tackle this, practitioners in Stockport have been using a new technique which encourages children to focus on the individual components of a story. This involves retelling its narrative and generating their own ideas around it.

The approach uses visual and spoken prompts to help children organise and structure their responses to questions. It addresses both their receptive and expressive language difficulties, as well as developing important pre-verbal skills. It can also be used to support other areas of the curriculum.

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