Learning to Ask Questions

Abstract

children’s attention toward this aspect and, consequently, may have helped them discover the mental motivations for the characters’ behaviors. The deeper understanding of the plot leads children to tell a longer and more elaborate narrative and use clearer and more specific linguistic devices to mark causality links. Children who improve their narratives after the SCI may have the underlying cognitive and linguistic competencies necessary to tell a causal and mind-oriented narrative but, without the facilitating support such as SCI, they may have difficulties in focusing on and integrating all the different aspects involved in the narrative task. The SCI orientation can easily be incorporated into narrative intervention conducted by speech-language pathologists and reading comprehension activities led by teachers.