Table 7.

Rubric for Assessing English Verb Argument Structure

Frog Story 1: One Frog Too Many - English Retell
Page #	Target Verb and Contexts (Please circle what the child said, only when target verb is used.)	Write Sum of Verb and Number of Arguments Used
4	The boy shows the frog to the animals.
7	The boy yells/says “bad frog” to the big frog.
11 or 13	The boy says/tells “you can’t come” to the big frog.
18	The turtle tells/says/talks “the little frog fell down” to the boy.
20 or 21	The boy looks for the little frog somewhere.
Frog Story 2: Frog Where Are You?- English Spontaneous Tell
2	The frog gets its body out the bottle.
4	The dog puts the head in the bottle.
19	The deer carries the boy off the cliff.
20-22	The deer drops the boy off the cliff.
24	The boy says “sh” to the dog.
28	The frog gives the little frog to the boy.
29	The boy says “bye” to the frogs.
	TOTAL ARGUMENT STRUCTURE SCORE SUM