Adult Promotion of Children’s Narratives through Participatory Prompts: Educational Implications

Collectivist Approaches for Supporting Young Children's Narrative Skills

“…Based on previous studies (Plotka & Wang, 2016), we anticipated that the use of participatory prompts would predict higher levels of narrative complexity in young children.…”

“…During narrative tasks, parents use of participatory styles of narrative support were measured by the Caregiver Prompt Styles Coding Scheme (CPS) developed by Plotka and Wang (2016). Plotka and Wang (2016) analyzed the naturalistic conversations of collectivist families and identified three categories of participatory prompts:…”

“…When adults are successful at promoting narratives, children are motivated to initiate conversations about similar experiences and discuss a topic further without the need of the adult to often initiate conversation (Plotka and Wang 2016). The number of adult initiations in the conversations was measured.…”