Sentences with phrase «verbal elaboration»

Reading a print or basic ebook with their parents prompted similar content - related actions by children — including labeling, pointing, and verbal elaboration of the story — which can support language development.

In this book, then, and especially in the earlier part, I have sometimes resorted to a slight verbal elaboration, either because there was no alternative if one was to write English at all, or because two words seemed necessary to convey the full «poetic» content of one word in the French, or again because a verbal elaboration seemed more likely to communicate the colour (and colour is of the essence of vision) of the original.