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.

Generic Structure of Narrative Text