Package of 25 Test of Narrative Language – Second Eidtion Examiner Record Booklets. Each booklet is 8 pages.

The Test of Narrative Language

Ages: 4-0 through 15-11
Testing Time: 15 to 20 minutes (30-45 minutes if you are unfamiliar with administering the test)
Administration: Individual
The Test of Narrative Language–Second Edition (TNL-2) is a norm-referenced test that measures children’s narrative language abilities (i.e., children’s ability to understand and tell stories). Narration is an important aspect of spoken language, not usually measured by oral-language tests, that provides a critical foundation for literacy.

The TNL-2 enables clinicians and teachers to assess important aspects of narrative language without having to transcribe children’s stories. This saves hours of transcription time, and provides a valid and reliable metric of narrative language development.

COMPLETE TNL-2 KIT INCLUDES: Examiner’s Manual, Picture Book, and 25 Examiner Record Booklets, all in a sturdy box. (©2017)

Test of Narrative Language – 2, Complete Kit $244.00

Features of the TNL-2
The TNL-2 is:

• a functional assessment of narrative comprehension and narrative production;
• a dynamic assessment in which comprehension and production tasks are alternated so children have the opportunity to profit from adult narrative models;
• a measure of the ability to comprehend and produce three types of stories: a script, a personal narrative, and a fictional narrative;
• a system for scoring oral narratives that does not require clinicians to transcribe the stories;
• a normative test with clear, well-organized norms tables and administration procedures, as well as an easy-to-use record form; and
• a fair and equitable assessment of narrative discourse for all children.

Story Topics

• 2 children going to eat at McDonalds with their mother
• school art project
• boy late for school
• finding treasure at a park
• aliens

Improvements in the TNL-2

The test has been improved in three major ways: (1) new, more colorful pictures, (2) more inferential comprehension questions, and (3) a consistent scoring format. Additional improvements to the test, based on feedback and current research, include:

• The normative sample is larger than the sample for the original TNL, with a wider age range (4–15 for the TNL-2 as compared to 5–12 for the TNL) and many more children at each age.
• The norms are based on new standardization data that were collected between 2013 and 2015. The demographic characteristics of the sample conform to those of the population reported by the U.S. Census Bureau (www.census.gov) and are representative of the U.S. population.
• The McDonald’s story retelling now has a picture that supports it, so that all the comprehension and production tasks have the same visual support.
• The pictures were revised to make them more colorful and interesting to children.
• The number of items on the comprehension tasks was increased, with more inferential items; more items for the youngest, low-functioning examinees; and more items for the oldest, high-functioning examinees.
• The scoring system for the oral narratives is now similar across the three types of stories. These changes make the TNL easier to score and more reliable.
• The reliability and validity chapters have been expanded.
• Numerous studies that provide evidence of the test’s construct validity and its long-term stability have been added to the validity chapter.
• A study of the test’s diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) supports its use for diagnosing children with language impairment and language-based learning disabilities that affect reading and writing.

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• • • identify and interpret facial expressions, gestures, posture, proximity, and wordless vocalizations (hmmm, ah-ha, duh, etc.) in isolation and together

Making inferences:

• • • pay attention to relevant details and ignore irrelevant ones
    • use context, body language, and other clues to make reasonable inferences about what is happening and why

Problem solving

• • • recognize the feelings of others as a priority when solving problems
    • thinking of solutions that preserve and/or create friendships

Multiple interpretations

• • • think of more than one logical interpretation for a situation
    • develop flexibility in thinking and consider the logical possibilities

Social Interaction

• • • learn to pay attention to body language, facial expressions, vocal intonation (when possible), and the expressive language of their peers, acquaintances, family members, strangers, and authority figures
    • learn to recognize appropriate and inappropriate reactions to these people and what to say and do
    • handle difficult social situations appropriately
    • support friends and preserve friendships

Interpreting Perspectives

• • • Understand the key factors in evaluating others’ perspectives
    • recognize that people in the same situation can think different thoughts and have different opinions

Interpreting Idioms and Sarcasm

• • • learn to recognize the paralinguistic features of conversations that are replete with innuendo, sarcasm, and metaphors in order to react appropriately in social situations

Interpersonal Negotiations

• • • learn to compromise, acquiesce, problem solve, listen, seek mutual resolutions, and negotiate

To see more of this product’s contents:

• • • • Introduction
      • Sample Pages
      • References
      • About the Authors

184 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2010

Supporting Success is happy to offer this product from ProEd/Linguasystems Publications.

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Webber WH Photo Cards includes:

• 100 full-color photo cards, 4” x 6”
• 10 questions for each photo (receptive and expressive)
• Content cards and game ideas
• Sturdy storage box

Download the Free Data Sheet

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Students move around the colorful community game board and answer social-skills questions. With each correct answer, they collect a token and try to fill a token strip. The first to fill the token strip, or collect the most tokens, wins!

Students will visit places on the game board common to all communities: doctor’s office, police station, library, fire station, hospital, courthouse, city hall, park, grocery store, restaurants, and more. The Social Situation Cards target several different settings. The open-ended questions encourage students to problem-solve and are excellent for role-play.

Perfect for students working on functional language and verbal reasoning, students in life skills or adapted living classes. Reinforces social language.

What Do You Say…What Do You Do… In the Community? includes:

• 6 Categories of Social Situations: Medical, Outside, Places to Eat, Stores, Business/Government, All Around
• 390 Community Situation Cards (3⅜” x 1¾”)
•  Illustrated Community Game Board (18″ x 18″)
• 144 Laminated Community Tokens
• 6 Community Characters and 6 Token Strips with Die

Choking hazard, contains small parts. Not intended for children under the age of three.

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Includes:

• One 90-page, wire-bound manual
• With website link to videos signed in ASL for assessment purposes
• With website link to downloadable PDFs of all manual-included maps and forms
• Macro- and Microstructure for American Sign Language
• One copy of A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog by Mercer Mayer
• Progress Monitoring and Instructional Planning tools for students using American Sign Language as well as DHH Students using English

90 pages

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Download Free: Cracking the Grammar Code: Syntax Skills Pretests and Sample Activities  

Test one or more students with the FREE criterion-referenced pretests and see how easy it is to identify learning gaps.  Then purchase one of the 4 downloadable books with the pinpointed instruction you need, or purchase them all together at reduced pricing. 

Only available from Supporting Success, Cracking the Grammar Code is an AMAZING resource that provides a year’s worth of focused learning materials.  It is divided into four downloadable books, a glossary, plus a FREE sample pretests and skills activity book. Cracking the Grammar Code is a comprehensive resource to help students master basic concepts for English grammar and writing. It contains easy to use activities regarding language rules for a school year.  These materials can be used by general education and special education teachers, including teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to emphasize grammar skills.

Cracking the Grammar Code is designed for use with students from upper elementary school through high school. Each key concept is taught predictably, alternating between two kinds of activities: teacher-directed and student application. Each pair of activities gets progressively more challenging and builds on previous knowledge to add consistency and practice as students work their way through each lesson.

Digital Workbooks Included:

(1) Nouns, Articles & Conjunctions (165 pgs) 

(2) Verbs (143 pgs)

(3) Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, & Prepositional Phrases (94 pages)

(4) Finding the Subject & Subject-Verb Agreement (141 pages)

NEW! Digital download now includes fillable PDF handouts.

Each book contains individual subject pretests and teaches concepts in incremental steps.

Books can be taught in any order depending on the students’ skill levels; however, for a complete years’ worth of lessons, present the books in the above order.

Add the companion Vocabulary Enhancement Glossary (128 pages) $20.00 digital

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• Featuring more than 1,000 ASL sign drawings
• All signs paired with charming color illustrations
• Introduction explains how to sign ASL and fingerspell
• Complete index of English terms for each sign, including synonyms
• Sample sentences using specific words to match every sign’s meaning
• Video dictionary now available at gcdasl.com

The Gallaudet Children’s Dictionary of American Sign Language presents more than 1,000 ASL sign drawings arranged alphabetically by English terms, plus delightful color illustrations for each sign.

Also featuring English sentences for each sign, this Dictionary stands alone as the best, most entertaining ASL reference volume for deaf and hearing children alike.

The Gallaudet Children’s Dictionary is a bilingual dictionary that serves a twofold purpose—to increase and improve deaf children’s English vocabulary skills and to teach American Sign Language to hearing children. Research indicates that all children benefit from knowing more than one language, and they acquire the second language relatively quickly when they start learning it before the age of twelve. This dictionary will help deaf children make the connections between the signs they already know and the written English words that express the same concept. As a result, their reading vocabulary will grow, and they will gain an understanding of how English words can have different meanings. Hearing children will learn a new language and a new way to communicate.

The introduction explains the history and culture of American Sign Language as well as how to sign and fingerspell. The index listing all of the English vocabulary for each sign completes The Gallaudet Children’s Dictionary of American Sign Language as the new standard ASL reference for children, their parents, and their teachers.

392 pages, 1,048 sign illustrations, 1,048 full-color illustrations, practice sentences, and index. Video dictionary is now available at gcdasl.com.

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Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities is a great book for age 11 and up.

Signing is visual, easy to learn, and fun to use. Author Penny Warner offers 441 useful signs on a variety of favorite topics: activities, animals, fashion, food, holidays, home, outdoors, parties, people, places, play, emotions, school, shopping, travel, plus extra fun signs for especially popular words.

Each chapter includes practice sentences using everyday phrases to help new signers learn in a fun way.

Signing Fun provides dozens of entertaining games and activities, too, such as:

• Alphabet Sign
• Finger Fun Gesture Guess
• Match Signs
• Mime and Sign
• Oppo-Sign
• Picture Hand
• Secret Sign
• Sign-A-Gories
• Signo Bingo
• Snap and Sign
• Truth or Sign.

It also features a list of tips on how to sign, including how to fingerspell, use numbers, and communicate with deaf people.

Whimsical drawings clearly illustrate all of the signs, and a full index lists all of their English meanings for quick reference. is a terrific first book for learning sign while having a great time.

Penny Warner is a child development instructor and author of more than 40 books in Danville, CA.

192 pages, 952 illustrations, index.

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The primary purpose of Building Success with Intelligible Speech, is to improve student success by inproving speech intelligibility and communication self-confidence. It is not possible to teach students all of the words they will ever say; however, we can teach them the TOOLS for correctly pronouncing new words they encounter. These tools can be found in this assessment and intervention book. English is said to be one of the most difficult languages to learn because of the inconsistencies and exceptions to word pronunciation. Thus far, detailed analysis, comprehensive assessments and remediation of English pronunciation skills have not been available for students with pronunciation issues.

BUILDING SUCCESS WITH INTELLIGIBLE SPEECH for Students with Hearing Loss or Others with Speech Pronunciation Issues was created to be used by the Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) and Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TOD).

This book includes:

• Comprehensive Pronunciation testing for 3-year evaluations
• Pronunciation subtests for Developing IEP Goals
• Sample IEP Goals
• Intervention recommendations
• Intervention activities

Skill:  Speech Pronunciation

Grades: 4 – 12 and adults

Population:
Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Accent Reduction
Other Speech Pronunciation Issues

” I LOVE THIS!! WOW! Building Skills with Intelligible Speech makes so much sense! I think this is a great assessment for teachers and SLPs. The explanations are excellent and I didn’t feel like I was reading something that was too technical. The intelligibility explanation versus articulation also made sense. Many students who are DHH may never reach full articulation with some sounds, but this would assist with intelligibility. I liked the suggestion to record the student and then score it, starting with just syllables and scoring that, then listening again for the second component and so on. The first few times would be difficult to score, but that is explained and expected for a new assessment. The Exceptional Word List and Abbreviations information is also spot on. I really want to give this to the SLPs to use with their assessment of my kids with reading skills grade 4 and up.”
 – Educational Diagnostician for DHH, Texas

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Preschool can be a real challenge for students with hearing loss and their teachers. How do we know that they are learning as well and as fast as they need to if they are to keep up with peers?

The CID-Central Institute for the Deaf Preschool Language Pack provides the functional assessments YOU NEED to be able to identify areas of language development need and track learning progress in the subcategories of.

The Preschool Language Pack includes all functional assessments necessary to accurately:

The package contains (1) TAGS: Teacher Assessment of Grammatical Structures manual + five (5) each:

All CID functional assessments feature the same simple marking system. Instructions are included.

Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss is pleased to partner with the Central Institute for the Deaf to offer the Preschool Language Pack.

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