Ming shows how to move kids from one-sentence answers to longer stories. She defines an utterance as what you say in one breath, then walks through sequencing activities like explaining game rules and story-element inferencing to build toward multi-sentence speech.
At story level is which children are starting to form multi utterances. An utterance is just in one breath how much they can say, like this is an orange cat, like the one you saw. That's one utterance. Then the next utterance would be, he was walking around. And the next utterance would be he was disturbing my YouTube video. Right? That's the last utterance. So there's a multi utterance once we get here, of which we've been doing already in the sentence level with like sequencing cards or sequencing activities, or sequential play, or explaining game rules and board games or whatnot. At story level, we try to make it as long as possible. Then we have something called story elements inferencing, and we also do a lot more higher language targets.
