Brief tiered collaborative narrative intervention for kindergarten students: An exploratory study

Collaborative tiered narrative intervention for at-risk kindergarten students Early language and emergent literacy skills are predictive of subsequent academic success [1,2]. Children’s oral narratives are important in understanding this relationship because limited narrative skills have been demonstrated to be predictive of poor language outcomes [3]. Narrative discourse bridges the gap between contextualized oral and decontextualized literate language and is foundational in the development of reading and writing skills [4]. Beyond its foundation in literacy, narrative discourse is an important component of oral language that is essential to the human experience. Stories allow us to build connections with the people around us, which influences social competence [5]. Children begin school with varying levels of oral language competency Purpose: Children enter school with varying levels of oral language skills and exposure to the narrative structure used in academic contexts based on individual, family, and environmental factors. Multi-tiered instructional models can be used to appropriately identify and support students who need intensive intervention while minimizing over-identification of students. The purpose of this increasing intensity study was to explore the clinical applicability of a tiered narrative language intervention for kindergarten students at-risk for academic difficulties.