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 third session of the programme. This session introduces the idea that every story has a story structure with the key elements. It identifies the three main parts of a story: beginning, middle and end using train with carriages to pictorially represent the parts of a story. The middle of the story may have one or even more events or actions that have happened within the story. These events may be related to each other, or be quite separate. The end of the story can either provide the listener with all the outcomes and the answers about the story and how the problems were resolved.