Nursery World - A Unique Child - Narrative intervention

Speech and language skills are the focus of a unique programme that takes children through the core elements of storytelling, says Annette Rawstrone.

'An inability to retell a story in a kindergarten child must serve as an alarm signal for all who are concerned with that child's progress through school. This alarm signal is all the more critical when the failure is accompanied by other measures suggesting delays in syntax, low levels of vocabulary development or difficulties in language learning in general.'

Rita C Naremore, 'Language Intervention With School-Aged Children: Conversation, Narrative and Text'

Nursery children in Preston are learning journalistic techniques as part of a speech and language programme to help them to develop essential vocabulary and listening skills.

Ribbleton Sure Start and Fishwick and St Matthew Sure Start are providing funding so that the Narrative Intervention programme can be run in 12 reception classes and one nursery across the two areas. Almost 300 children are being targeted by the scheme, which helps them to focus on the important elements that make up a story - who, where, when and what happens next.

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