Title : “Reading: Let’s Study Narrative”
Skill
Focus : Reading
Level :
Junior High School
Objective : By the end of the lesson, the students
are able to understand and analyze the generic structure of narrative text.
Hello, my sweety students!
This
interesting page provides you all about “narrative”
text. You will find clear explanation of narrative text, educated story, and
excited exercises.
Pre-reading
Have
you ever heard the story of Snow White, Cinderella, or Indonesian story, Malin
Kundang?
Then,
what are they belong to?
They
are the example of narrative text.
So, from
those examples, does anyone know what narrative text is?
Here, the
short explanation of narrative text.
That is the definition of narrative text. Then, look at the picture below. You can learn more about narrative text that is the “Generic Structure”.
> Orientation
It
tells the audience about who is in the story, when the story is taking place
and where the action is happening.
>
Complication
It
sets off a chain of events that influence what will happen in the story.
>
Resolution
The
characters finally sort out the complication.
Is that
clear about Narrative text?
Now, I give you
the example of narrative text, and the analysis of the generic structure. Learn
it.
Do you
understand the example and generic structure of narrative text? To know it,
continue to the next section :)
While-reading
In this section, read narrative text, titled “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.
If you want to learn how to read the text through interesting audio-visual, click here. Or, you can just read the text below.
Goldilocks
and the Three Bears
Once
upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She had golden hair.
One day, Goldilocks
was walking in the forest. She saw a house and knocked on the door. She went
inside. Nobody was there. Goldilocks saw three bowls on the table. She was hungry.
She tasted the porridge from the first bowl.
“This porridge is too
hot!" she exclaimed. So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl.
"This porridge is
too cold," she said
So, she tasted the
last bowl of porridge. "Ahhh, this porridge is just right," she said
happily and she ate it all up.
Goldilocks was tired
now. She sat in the first chair to rest her feet.
"This chair is
too big!" she exclaimed.
So she sat in the
second chair.
"This chair is
too big, too!" she whined.
So she tried the last
and smallest chair.
"Ahhh, this chair
is just right," she sighed. But
just as she settled down into the chair to rest, it broke into pieces!
Goldilocks was very
tired. She went upstairs. She lay down in the first bed, “This bed is too
hard!” Then, she lay in the second bed, “This bed is too soft!” Then, she lay
down in the third bed, “This bed is too hard!” Goldilocks fell asleep.
Soon, the bears came
home.
"Someone's been
eating my porridge!" said Daddy Bear.
"Someone's been
eating my porridge!" said Mummy Bear.
"Someone's been
eating my porridge – and it’s all gone!" said Baby Bear.
"Someone's been
sitting in my chair!" said Daddy Bear.
"Someone's been
sitting in my chair!" said Mummy Bear.
"Someone's been
sitting in my chair – and it’s broken" said Baby Bear.
They decided to look around some more and when they
got upstairs to the bedroom
"Someone's been sleeping in my bed!" said
Daddy Bear.
"Someone's been sleeping in my bed!" said
Mummy Bear.
"Someone's
been sleeping in my bed - and she's still there!" said Baby bear.
Goldilocks woke up and
saw the three bears. “Help!” She ran downstairs and into the forest. She never
came back again.
Is it fun
story, right?
Do you
understand the text?
Check your
understanding trough this excited “True of False Facts Test”.
Choose ‘True’
if the answer is appropriate based on story, and ‘False’ if it is wrong answer.
True or False Facts Test
Post-reading
You
have understood the “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” story. Now, it is time to
understand the material that is about narrative text.
In
this section, you have to analyze the generic structure of “Goldilocks and the
Three Bears”. Read the text again, then analyze the generic structure by choosing orientation, complication, or resolution according to the questions.
