Skill
focus : Reading ( Narrative Text )
Level : Junior High School
Objective : By the end of the lesson, students
are able to comprehend a narrative text entitles Little Red Riding Hood and can
answers some questions related to the story.
Hello students, how are you?
Today, we are going to learn a narrative text. Do you feel familiar with this text? Do you have a clue about narrative text?
Ok, here a description about NARRATIVE TEXT.
Purpose
The basic purpose of narrative is to entertain, to gain and hold a readers' interest.
Types of narrative
There are many types of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both. They may include fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, personal experience.
Features
- Characters with defined personalities/identities.
- Dialogue often included - tense may change to the present or the future.
- Descriptive language to create images in the reader's mind and enhance the story.
Structure
- Orientation: (introduction) in which the characters, setting and time of the story are established. Usually answers who? when? where? eg. Mr Wolf went out hunting in the forest one dark gloomy night.
- Complication or problem: The complication usually involves the main character(s) (often mirroring the complications in real life).
- Resolution: There needs to be a resolution of the complication. The complication may be resolved for better or worse/happily or unhappily. Sometimes there are a number of complications that have to be resolved. These add and sustain interest and suspense for the reader.
Language
- Action verbs: Action verbs provide interest to the writing. For example, instead of The old woman was in his way try The old woman barred his path. Instead of She laughed try She cackled.
- Written in the first person (I, we) or the third person (he, she, they).
- Usually past tense.
- Connectives,linking words to do with time.
- Specific nouns: Strong nouns have more specific meanings, eg. oak as opposed to tree.
- Active nouns: Make nouns actually do something, eg. It was raining could become Rain splashed down or There was a large cabinet in the lounge could become A large cabinet seemed to fill the lounge.
- Careful use of adjectives and adverbs: Writing needs judicious use of adjectives and adverbs to bring it alive, qualify the action and provide description and information for the reader.
- Use of the senses: Where appropriate, the senses can be used to describe and develop the experiences, setting and character:
PRE READING
I have two pictures for you
the first is ....
Do you know what the picture is it?
Yes, great students. The first picture is Little Red Riding Hood.
And the next picture is ......
Yes, you are right. The picture is a wolf, the cruel wolf.
WHILE READING
If you have problem watching the video , please use this link:
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
POST READING
In this section you will read a short story version of Little Red Riding Hood.
Here the short story version of Little Red Riding Hood. Read it carefully students.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
One day, Little
Red Riding Hood’s mother said to her, “Take this basket of goodies to your
grandma’s cottage, but don’t talk to strangers on the way!” Promising not to,
Little Red Riding Hood skipped off. On her way she met the Big Bad Wolf who
asked, “Where are you going, little girl?” “To my grandma’s, Mr. Wolf!” she
answered.
The Big Bad Wolf
then ran to her grandmother’s cottage much before Little Red Riding Hood, and
knocked on the door. When Grandma opened the door, he locked her up in the
cupboard. The wicked wolf then wore Grandma’s clothes and lay on her bed,
waiting for Little Red Riding Hood.
When Little Red
Riding Hood reached the cottage, she entered and went to Grandma’s bedside.
“My! What big eyes you have, Grandma!” she said in surprise. “All the better to
see you with, my dear!” replied the wolf. “My! What big ears you have,
Grandma!” said Little Red Riding Hood. “All the better to hear you with, my
dear!” said the wolf. “What big teeth you have, Grandma!” said Little Red
Riding Hood. “All the better to eat you with!” growled the wolf pouncing on
her. Little Red Riding Hood screamed and the woodcutters in the forest came
running to the cottage. They beat the Big Bad Wolf and rescued Grandma from the
cupboard. Grandma hugged Little Red Riding Hood with joy. The Big Bad Wolf ran
away never to be seen again. Little Red Riding Hood had learnt her lesson and
never spoke to strangers ever again.
You have watched the video and read
the short story version, now it's time for quizzes.
*Multiple Choice*
*True/False*
*Essay Type*
Enjoy these quizzes
students!
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD FUN QUIZ! » Quiz School
Now, try other fun quizzes to
enrich your comprehension!
6 comments:
strengths:
1. nice topic and material
2. nice content with attractive pictures included
3. the vocabularies used are also easy to understand
weaknesses:
1. it will be better if you use bullet in some parts of your explanation that show some lists of characteristics like the part of Language. it will help students to understand more because the bullets will help them read each of the list easily.
2. the video can't be played so you need to check again
3. the quiz doesn't work since it can;t be used to check the student's work and hint the answer. also, since the video doesn't work, the students are not able to do the exercise since these two are related.
4. in the post reading activity you mention about the short story of the red riding hood, but you didn't provide the short story in your blog
5. your topic is about red riding hood, but you don't mention anything about red riding hood. you need to engage your student about what kind of thing red riding hood is
6. there is no objective of the lesson and there is no level grade of the lesson.
suggestions:
1. you can give some bullets in the part Language so that the students can understand the text more. i think the list of the Language part needs to be made more obvious by adding some bullets
2. fix the video so that it can be played well to answer the questions
3. fix the quiz so that the students can use it effectively both for doing the exercise or checking the answers
4. you can post a short story about red riding hood to complete your post and allow your student to easily read the story
5. edit your post to mention the objective and the level of the students
6. give a little brief explanation about red riding hood to give more overview for the students in case some students really unfamiliar with the story
Strength
1. Red riding hood is very familiar story and might attract the students' interest.
2. The pictures are good and can help the students to have an overview about the story.
3. The language used in the content is good and easy to understand.
Weakness and suggestion
1. This lesson has no clear objective and the level. The writer should mention the them so that the visitors get clear purpose in following this lesson.
2. The video can't be played. The writer need to check again and fix it.
3. The skill emphasized in this lesson is not clear whether it is listening or reading. If it is reading why the story is served in video not in a text? I think it's better to serve the story in text and the video is just for attracting or brainstorming the students.
4. If it focuses on reading skill, i think the exercise is not appropriate because it doesn't check the students' comprehension of the story. It's better to use Wh+H questions to explore the information in the story or true/false questions.
5. The quiz doesn't work well. The students' can't check whether their answers are correct or not since there is no feedback.
6. There is no introduction to attract and brainstorm the students. The writer need to give some questions to draw the students' background knowledge before she explains the purpose, type of narrative and so on.
Well, just keep blogging and working. :)
Strength :
- your blog is designed nicely which is good enough to attract the students' attention in learning English
- the classroom languages which are used are also simple that the students can easily understand the lesson
Weakness :
- the objectives haven't been mentioned at the beginning of the lesson
- there is no help from the teacher to help students gaining some vocabularies which are used in the text
- the quiz doesn't work well. It's better for you to check it first
Suggestion
- it's better for you to give some terminologies before asking the students watch the video and read the text. It will be much helpful to increase the students' reading comprehension
- your lesson is so to the point. Somehow, it's better that you provide some activities to the students where you can brainstorm and build their background knowledge.
Overall, it's a nice blog :)
Thanks guys for the comments. Actually, I have done some revisions like for the bullets and the quiz. :)
Oh for the video, it works (I have checked it) but maybe if your connection is slow you have to wait some minutes. :)
Can't wait for the next comments.
Strengths:
- nice blog design
- good material and organization
weaknesses:
- "this video is currently not available, please try again later", this is what your video says when I tried to open it.
- no evaluation activity.
suggestions:
- please add more interesting picture to attract the visitor of your blog.
- it's better for you to use the side bar (not only scrolling down)
- overall it's good.
OK, thanks for the useful comments guys. I'll improve my blog. :)
Post a Comment