ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a narrative intervention programme to enhance the understanding and facilitating the expression of narratives or stories in students with varied speech, language and communication needs in the later primary years and in secondary schools. It details the sixteenth session of the programme. There are many different ways that facilitators can make their voices and faces more interesting and vary their vocal delivery. Options include: the use of different facial expressions, using language in different ways, using gesture to emphasise main concepts of the story, and so on. Facilitators need to show the students how changes in the emphasis of different words in the sentence can change the meaning. They also need to show how the use of vocal variety makes the sentence more interesting. Students should try to depict the emotion so clearly that the group are able to guess correctly with the smallest number of clues.
