What is Narrative Language?  Narrative language involves the ability to tell and retell stories.  It includes the ability to use story grammar elements (characters, setting, initiating event, plan, consequence, etc) in a logical sequence.  It also includes the ability to use grammatical sentences with descriptive vocabulary and cohesive conjunctions (ex: first, next, because, but) to indicate relationships between events. Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have weaker narrative skills than their peers without language impairment.  Narrative skills at the age of five are a significant predictor of reading comprehension ability at the age of eight (Griffin et al., 2004).  In addition to having difficulty retelling/telling stories, children with weak narrative language skills often have difficulty talking about their experiences like their school day or something that happened to them.  They might not provide enough information, use an illogical sequence of events, and use vague vocabulary.  Usually people will need to ask many clarifying questions to fully understand what the child is trying to talk about.  This can impact their social relationships, as children who are good storytellers are more accepted by their peers (Hart et al., 2004; P. C. McCabe & Marshall, 2006). Explicitly teaching of narrative language skills is an effective and evidence-based approach to language intervention.