ABSTRACT Prekindergarten students participated in illustration analysis during an afterschool art club, demonstrating approaches adaptable across diverse educational contexts globally. Each day the teacher utilized seminar approaches to connect the illustrations to key elements of narrative discourse structures, such as setting, character, emotions, the passage of time, problem and solution, prediction, and inference. In addition, in each session students created and narrated their own illustrations. Participants in the art club significantly increased their oral narrative ability, language complexity, narrative retelling, story comprehension, vocabulary usage, and episodic components.
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