Frog, where are you?

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Frog, where are you?

• The Acquisition of Discourse Skills

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3 year old Narrative

• Its a bee. Theres a dog. And theres a frog,
  and slippers, and another slipper, and theres
  boots. Hes wake up! They put her head in the
  pot. Going down. The dog barked, and here they
  calling frog. Theres bees. And the hole in the
  tree. Ack! A owl. And hes running through
  there and he fell off. Look, oh, hes up there!
  Hes awake. He fell off, and he fell off of in
  the pool. And theres no head! Then theres a
  frog. See, he caughted a frog. 38

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3 year old Narrative

• Its a bee.
• Theres a dog.
• And theres a frog, and slippers, and another
  slipper, and theres boots.
• Hes wake up!
• They put her head in the pot.
• Going down.

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3 year old Narrative

• The dog barked, and here they calling frog.
• Theres bees.
• And the hole in the tree.
• Ack!
• A owl.
• And hes running through there and he fell off.

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3 year old Narrative

• Look, oh, hes up there!
• Hes awake.
• He fell off, and he fell off of in the pool.
• And theres no head!
• Then theres a frog.
• See, he caughted a frog. 38

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5 Year Old Narrative

• And then he they were going to sleep, and then
  hes gonna go out the window. And then he had a
  jar stuck on his headAnd then they were calling
  for the frog, and then he breaks the jar.
  Theres a beehive and a gopher. And the beehive
  fell down, and they look in the tree, and they
  start calling. And they think thats sticks, but
  its a an antler. And then they run, and they
  go in the water. And behind that log is frogs.
  Theres some more frogs, and there another frog.
  The boy goes in the water, and they look and
  watch. Oh, theres one! He cant get up. 56

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5 Year Old Narrative

• And then he they were going to sleep, and then
  hes gonna go out the window.
• And then he had a jar stuck on his head
• And then they were calling for the frog, and then
  he breaks the jar.
• Theres a beehive and a gopher.
• And the beehive fell down, and they look in the
  tree, and they start calling.

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5 Year Old Narrative

• And they think thats sticks, but its a an
  antler.
• And then they run, and they go in the water.
• And behind that log is frogs.
• Theres some more frogs, and there another frog.
  
• The boy goes in the water, and they look and
  watch.
• Oh, theres one! He cant get up. 56

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9 Year Old Narrative

• Once there was a boy who had a pet frog and a
  dog.
• And that night he was watching it.
• And when he went to sleep, the frog got out of
  his jar and got away.
• The next morning, when he woke up, he saw that
  the frog was gone.
• So he put on his clothes, and the dog
  accidentally got his head stuck in the jar which
  the frog was kept in.
• They called out the window, and the dog fell
  down, and the glass jar broke, and the boy was
  mad at him.

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9 Year Old Narrative

• So they went off to find his pet frog.
• And he looked in a hole and the dog was chasing
  the beehive.
• It was a home to a ground squirrel.
• And he got his nose scratched.
• And the dog was still over playing with the bees.
  
• The bees started to chase him, cause the beehive
  fell.
• The boy was calling the frog in this tree.

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9 Year Old Narrative

• And then the dog was running away, because the
  bees were all chasing him, and he had fallen down
  because an owl poked him out of the tree.
• And the bees chased the dog, and the dog chased
  the boy to a rock, and he stood on the rock and
  called the frog.
• But a deer was on top, and it got him by his
  horns, and carried him to the edge of a cliff,
  with his dog chasing after, and threw them both
  into the lake, that was down below, and they both
  fell in.
• And then they heard some frogs chirping on the
  other side of the log.

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9 Year Old Narrative

• So they went to the log, and they went over and
  saw his pet frog with a mate.
• And when they climbed over they saw that he had
  babies, too, and so the frog let them have one of
  his babies, instead of him. 91

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• End