Research has shown the importance of identifying story structure categories in the development of an effective storytelling repertoire. Consequently, procedures that aim at teaching the identification of those categories have been developed and tested. The purpose of the present manuscript, which encompasses two studies, was to assess the effects of a teaching procedure for story category identification in 12 children (six in each study), ages ranging from eight to 12 years. A multiple probe design, which is comprised by probes of participants' performance before and after each category teaching, was used. Teaching sessions were divided in two phases - description and identification of each category - which consisted in the presentation of oral and written instructions and different stories. In both studies, the procedure yielded the learning of all categories by every participant. The studies contribute to the literature on teaching story structure category discrimination.
Implicit categories; story structure; category discrimination; programmed instruction
