chool since they were three years of age, while the children categorized into the RS level began to study in this school at age of seven.Compared to the preschool children, the school-aged children’s abilities in expressing story grammar are more inconsistent. The possible explanation for the difference is that English abilities among school-aged children are more varied. Some children began English learning as early as three, while some started later. This finding is consistent with Montanari’s study (2004), which examined the development of narrative competence of children with different English proficiency levels. The result indicated that impoverished linguistic resources might be an important factor to children’s poor narrative competence.Comparison between the Presch and School-aged Children’s Stories The present study identified some developmental differences in the storiesproduced by the two age groups. According to Ilgaz and Aksu-Koc (2005), story telling is the combination between the conceptual and linguistic levels. In other words, children should have the ability to produce the components including the characters, goals, actions, or consequences, and also have to organize those components with a narrative schema as well as to express the narratives verbally. In addition, the content of the narratives affects narrative structure (Stein, 1986). Therefore, narrative structures produced by children at the present study could reveal their cognitive recognition at various levels.First, the results revealed that compared to school-aged children, preschool children were more likely to produce stories not in the exact sequence as prescribed by the picture book. They simply told the stories in their own way, and they also lacked the ability to reorganize plots into correct episodes. The possible explanation