Reading

Demonstrate the ability to extract relevant specific information from

forms, letters, brochures and examples of imaginative writing
considered likely to be within the experience of and reflecting the
interests of young people from varied
cultural backgrounds
• Narrative (Imaginative Writing)

• Identify specific and certain information from the reading text

• Define the main idea of the paragraph of the reading text.
• Find out the meaning of the certain words from the reading text.
• Identify meaning of sentences from the reading text.
Narrative deals with problematic events which lead to a crisis or
tuning point of some kind (Climax), which turn in finds a
resolution.

Types of narrative stories :

Fable, Fairy tales, folk tale, Horror story,
mystery story.

In some cases narrative are set in historical ones. In

writing this historical narrative writers perhaps lead
readers to think about social issues of particular period
of time.
Besides that, Its stress it circumstances of time using
temporal sequence such as one day, one upon a time,
then, later, soon, a few days later, meanwhile, finally,
or at the end, etc. Besides that Narrative also use
sentence connector like, however, but, therefore, etc.

The Purpose of narrative story:

• To amuse or to entertain
• To deal with actual vicarious experiences in different
ways.
 set the scene; introduce the participants,
Orientation character and complication.

Evaluation a stepping back to evaluate the plight

a series of complication or crisis points arises in

Complication the story.

Resolution The crisis is resolved, for better or for worse

Re - Orientation Optional.
 1.Use past tense
2.Possible use of present and future tense for
various part of story.
3.Possible use of the first person (I, We) or the
third person pronoun (he, she).
4.Use action verbs
5.Use adjective and adverbs to create mental
pictures of characters, actions and setting.
6.Use of direct speech to show what characters
are saying or thinking.
7. Using Temporal Sequences.
 Once upon a time there lived a
little girl named Snow While.
Orientation She lived with her Aunt and
Uncle because her parents
were dead.

One day she heard her Uncle and

Aunt talking about leaving Snow
Major White in the castle because they
Complication both wanted to go to America and
they didn’t have enough money to
take Snow White.
 Snow White did not want her
Uncle and Aunt to do this so
she decided it would be best if
Resolution she ran away.
The next morning she ran away
from home her Aunt and Uncle
were having breakfast she ran
away into the woods.

Complication She was very tired and hungry.

 Then she saw this little
cottage. She knocked but
Re solution no one answered so she
went inside and fell a
sleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs

were coming home from work.
They went inside. There they
found Snow White sleeping.
Complication Then Snow White woke up She
saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs
said, what is your name?
Snow White said, ‘My name is
Snow White’.
 Doc said, ‘If you wish,
you may live here with
us’. Snow White said,
Major ‘Oh could)...Thank you’.
Resolution Then Snow White told
the dwarfs the whole
story and Snow White
and the 7 dwarfs lived
happily ever after.
 QUIZ
Keep your handout aside; now answer
these questions shortly in a piece of paper.

 What is Narrative text?

 What is The function of Narrative text?

 What is orientation for?