NARRATIVE TEXT

OBJECTIVE

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify the elements of narrative structure in short stories

WARM UP

GRAMMAR

Narrative text is an imaginative or real story with complication or problematic events, and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems.

The purpose of narrative text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story

Generic structure.

Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

Complication: Where the problems in the story developed.

Resolution; where the problems in the story is solved.
Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.

Elements of narrative structure

Theme: is the main idea of the story

Plot: tells in sequence the important events that take place or happen in the story. Beginning, middle, end or introduction, problem, and resolution

Characters: The people or personified animals who are involved in the story. The main character is the person the story is mostly about.

Setting: is the time and place of the action in a story-where and when the action takes place.

Components of setting:

v  Location

v  Weather

v  Time Period

v  Time of Day

Narrator: is the person who tells the story. Usually, the narrator is the writer or a character in the story

First Person

v  Story is told through eyes of one person

v  Reader experiences story as the narrator views it

tTThird Person

v  The author is godlike: sees and knows all

ACTIVITIES

Complete the chart with the appropriate information taking into account the story “Cinderella”

PLOT	CHARACTERS	SETTING	NARRATOR