In my follow-up guest post at the end of this term, I’ll address how these activities worked, where things faltered, and perhaps share some students’ literacy narratives. On the heels of John’s post ...

But the link between "oral narrative" skills and early literacy was not seen in Latino, Asian, or white children, the study found. Storytelling Can Predict Later Literacy in Black Preschoolers ...

In the francophone literacy narratives course, for example, many of my students (as is almost always the case in UIC classes) were first or second generation immigrants who speak one to four languages ...

To measure the effects of oral narrative on kindergarten literacy, the researchers used a federal study that has tracked children born in 2001. About 6,150 children were evaluated by the researchers.