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Assessing What to Work on, Choosing Goals, and Taking Data

Assessment of Fictional Narratives (page 1 of 2)

Name: ___________________ Date: __________ DOB: __________ C.A.: __________

Macrostructure (Overall Organization of Story)
Age of Universal Expectancies Expectancies That May

Acquisition Vary Due to Culture

By: 3 years Setting
Time
Place
Initiating event

4yrs Temporal sequence
Central theme
Labels characters
Labels surroundings
5yrs Attempts
Consequence
Reaction
6yrs Provides implicit
aims/intentions of characters
Resolution
7yrs Theme and moral

8yrs Explicit aims/plans of
characters (uses words like
“decided to”)
11yrs Multiple plans Embedded Stories
Multiple attempts
Multiple consequences
>12yrs Two separate but parallel
episodes that influence each
other
Glenn and Stein (1980); Hedberg and Westby (1993); Liles (1987); Stein (1988); Hudson, Shapiro, McCabe, and Peterson (1991)

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