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A story retell, start to finish

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Walk through one story retell: show the picture scenes, record the retell and score it on the Narrative tab.

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What to do and say

A sample script of about 95 words. Say it your own way. Fill in the highlighted parts from your own sample, such as the MLU on your Metrics tab.

  1. 0:00

    DoOpen The Lost Puppy in the story library and choose Show scenes.

    SayThis is how a speech-language pathologist can collect a story retell. The pictures come from a free story library.

  2. 0:08

    DoGo through the four scenes with Next scene, then choose Record narrative.

    SayThe Lost Puppy has four scenes, made for preschool children. The child looks at each one, then tells the story back.

  3. 0:20

    DoRecord a short retell you wrote, in your own voice, then Upload & analyze and Analyze Language Sample.

    SayI recorded a made-up retell in my own voice. ConductSpeech turns it into a transcript and metrics.

  4. 0:35

    DoOn the Narrative tab, open NSS (Narrative), pick a score for each of the seven parts, then Score.

    SayOn the Narrative tab, I score seven parts of the story, from the introduction to the conclusion, each out of 5.

  5. 0:50

    DoShow the total out of 35, and say where to find the stories.

    SayTotal: [Total] out of 35. The stories are free to reuse with credit. Find them at conductspeech.com.

Posting it yourself? Say that ConductScience paid you, in the video or the caption, and use the platform's paid partnership label if it has one.

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What viewers should learn

A story retell shows how a child builds a story. The narrative scoring scheme rates seven parts, from the introduction to the conclusion, each out of 5, for a total out of 35.

Classic study: Heilmann et al., 2010.

Try it before you film

Open it first: The Lost Puppy on conductspeech.com. It is one of the free stories in the story library, with no account needed. Sign in before you record the retell, so you can see the transcript and score it.

Record yourself reading a sample you wrote, or type one in. Never show real participants, children, patients, private records or unpublished results. Get permission before you film at your school or workplace, or name it. The handbook has the rest.

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