The Influence Of Graphical Diary Telling Activities On 5—6 Years Old Children’s Narrative Ability

59 five-six-year old kindergarten children were quasi-randomly assigned into an intervened group or a control group in order to evaluate the aftermath effect of the Graphical Diary Retelling Activity on their narrative ability.During the experiment,the intervened children(n=29)were asked to draw a graphical diary on a notebook in their daily basis and re-tell the diary to their parents after school;while the control group(n=30)remained their routine activities without this particular intervention.The narrative ability of children in both groups were assessed before and after the 8 weeks intervention.The measurement consisted of eight sub-dimensions including narrative structure,theme appropriate,use of narrative mood,use of time markers,use of dialogue,expressiveness,vocabulary level and sentence structure.Results revealed,despite of the lack of differences in the pre-assessments,the intervened children significantly outperformed the control children in the post-assessments on narrative structure,theme appropriate.use of narrative mood,use of time markers,use of dialogue,vocabulary level and sentence structure except expressiveness.The Graphical Diary Retelling Activity can facilitate five-six-year old kindergarten children’s narrative ability.This study provides a new method to improve the narrative ability of kindergarten children in K3 class,which can help kindergarten teachers to carry out narrative ability teaching activities.