Assessing the narrative abilities of Spanish-speaking preschool children: A Spanish adaptation of the narrative assessment protocol

•We describe a Spanish adaptation of a narrative assessment tool.•Preschool assessment tools are not easily translated from English into Spanish.•Analysis of psychometric properties supported use of both long and short versions.•Number-gender agreement and regular imperfect verb tense benefitted the tool.•Spanish-speaking participants produced more tier-two verbs than tier-two nouns.