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Elicitation Materials

SALT software includes a variety of reference databases with samples from typical speakers. Your samples, elicited following the same protocols, may be compared with age and grade-matched samples selected from these databases. These elicitation materials contain everything you need to elicit samples for comparison with the specified databases. 

 

Grades Pre K - 6 Elicitation Kit (Monolingual English)

Everything you need to elicit samples for comparison to the Play, Narrative Story Retell ,Student Selects Story, Conversation, TNL/TNL2, and Expository reference databases.

The Narrative Story Retell database contains samples from typical students using the following stories:
    ▪ Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969) 
    ▪ Pookins Gets Her Way (Lester, 1987) 
    ▪ A Porcupine Named Fluffy (Lester, 1986) 
    ▪ Doctor De Soto (Steig, 1982) 

Comprehension questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy are also included for these stories.

 Mix and Match Individual Components for those who only need parts of the kit.

 

Online Story Elicitation Program (Monolingual English/English-fluent)

 

Online program for eliciting and recording samples for comparison to the Narrative Story Retell database using SALT Software.

The monolingual Engish/English-fluent program includes the following stories:
    ▪ Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969) 
    ▪ Pookins Gets Her Way (Lester, 1987)
    ▪ A Porcupine Named Fluffy (Lester, 1986) 

Please note the program does not include the story Doctor De Soto (Steig, 1982) or the comprehension questions.

 

 

Grades 7-12 Elicitation Kit (Monolingual English)

 

Everything you need to elicit samples for comparison to the Narrative Student Selects Story, Conversation, TNL/TNL2, Expository, Fables, and Persuasion reference databases.

 

Mix and Match Individual Components for those who only need parts of the kit.

K-3 Elicitation Kit (Bilingual Spanish/English)

Everything you need to elicit bilingual Spanish/English or monolingal Spanish samples for comparison to the Bilingual Spanish/English and Monolingual Spanish Story Retell databases using SALT Software.

The following frog stories are included:

    ▪ Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969)
    ▪ Frog Goes to Dinner (Mayer, 1974)
    ▪ Frog On His Own (Mayer, 1973)
    ▪ One Frog Too Many (Mayer & Mayer, 1975)

The frog story retell elicitation kit also includes comprehension questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy.

 Mix and Match Individual Components for those who only need parts of the kit.

 

Online Story Elicitation Program (Bilingual Spanish/English &  Monolingual Spanish)

 Online program for eliciting and recording samples for comparison to the Bilingual Spanish/English and Monolingual Spanish Story Retell databases using SALT Software.

The following frog stories are included:

    ▪ Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969)
    ▪ Frog Goes to Dinner (Mayer, 1974)
    ▪ Frog On His Own (Mayer, 1973)
    ▪ One Frog Too Many (Mayer & Mayer, 1975)

Please note the program does not include the comprehension questions.