Another session handout you'll find attached to the back of this newsletter is entitled, Ideas and Strategies for Effective Collaboration . Secord and Damico are also very much in tune with developing functional communication intervention goals for students, and providing speech-language interventions that help students succeed in classroom settings. These help to identify and keep track of characters in stories. Adverbial clauses, especially in the sentence initial position. These help to express the temporal and causal relationships between events.
Complement clauses with verbs of communication and mental state.
To most of us, the information about the importance of vocabulary knowledge and syntactic understanding and use is probably no surprise, but it was nice to see it reaffirmed in deVilliers' research. His studies have shown that students who have not acquired understanding and use of these structures are extremely challenged by reading material above the second grade level in complexity. Among other things, presupposition refers to what you know about what your communication partner knows and wants to know and how that influences the content and shaping of the messages you construct for your partner. Theory of Mind is central to social awareness and appropriate social behavior, and it also is necessary for the understanding of narratives. In real narratives, there are characters who have motives which influence their actions, and understanding their internal states is critical to understanding the psychological cause-effect relationships which make narratives interesting.