Linguistic and Thematic Variables in Recall of a Story by Disadvantaged Children

An illustrated story was read aloud to disadvantaged and advantaged kindergarten and first-grade children who then retold the story in their words. The oral productions were analyzed in terms of linguistic categories (number of words and sentences) and thematic categories (story-relevant sentences a...

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Published in:	Child development Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 637 - 640
Main Authors:	Milgram, Norman A., Shore, Milton F., Malasky, Charlotte
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, etc University of Chicago Press 01-06-1971 University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc
Subjects:	Brief Reports Children Elementary school students Kindergarten education Linguistics School age children Vocabulary Words
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Summary:	An illustrated story was read aloud to disadvantaged and advantaged kindergarten and first-grade children who then retold the story in their words. The oral productions were analyzed in terms of linguistic categories (number of words and sentences) and thematic categories (story-relevant sentences and essential themes). While advantaged children surpassed disadvantaged on all 4 measures, the differences favoring the advantaged children were greater on the linguistic than on the thematic categories.
ISSN:	0009-3920 1467-8624
DOI:	10.2307/1127497