Exploring Narrative Text

Title                    : Exploring Narrative Text

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, great explorer! How are you? Are you ready to explore all about narrative text? Let’s start.

Today, you will learn about narrative text. Here, you will find clear explanation of narrative text and also some exercises to check your comprehension.  Enjoy it.

Pre-reading

Do you know the story about Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast, Ali Baba and The Magic Lamp?

Do you think that they are belong to narrative text?

Yes, you are right. Those are included on famous narrative texts. But do you know what narrative text is? Let’s see.

How about the generic structure?

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And the language features?

Now, let’s take a look at the example below to make the explanation above clearer.  It will show you the generic structure on the left side and also the language features on the right side.

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That is all the explanation about narrative text. It is clear, right? Now, let’s go to the next part to have some exercises.

While-reading

In this section, you will read a narrative text entitled Jack and The Beanstalk. You can choose to just read the text below or you can also click this link to have an interesting audio-visual while you are reading. Okay, check this out.
 

Jack and The Beanstalk

Once upon a time there was a boy called Jack. He lived with his mother. They were very poor. All they had was a cow.

One morning, Jack’s mother told Jack to take their cow to market and sell her. On the way, Jack met a man. He gave Jack some magic beans for the cow. Jack took the beans and went back home. When Jack’s mother saw the beans she was very angry. She threw the beans out of the window.

The next morning, Jack looked out of the window. There was a giant beanstalk. He went outside and started to climb the beanstalk. He climbed up to the sky through the clouds. Jack saw a beautiful castle. He went inside. Jack heard a voice.

“Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!” Jack ran into a cupboard.

An enormous giant came into the room and sat down. On the table there was a hen and a golden harp.

 “Lay!” said the giant.

The hen laid an egg. It was made of gold.

“Sing!” said the giant.

 The harp began to sing. Soon the giant was asleep. Jack jumped out of the cupboard. He took the hen and the harp.

Suddenly, the harp sang, “Help, master!”

The giant woke up and shouted, “Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!”

Jack ran and started climbing down the beanstalk. The giant came down after him.

Jack shouted, “Mother, help!”

Jack’s mother took an axe and hopped down the beanstalk.

The giant fell and crashed to the  ground. Nobody ever saw him again. With the golden eggs and the magic harp, Jack and his mother lived happily ever after.

How is the story? It is interesting, right?

Now, let’s check  your comprehension about the story by doing these exercises. 
Happy trying :)


Exercise 1

Checking Comprehension » Make A Quiz

Exercise 2

True or False

Exercise 3

Jumbled Sentences

Post-reading

You have read the story about “Jack and The Beanstalk”. Now, it is time to understand the material that is about narrative text.

In this section, you have to analyze the generic structure of “Jack and The Beanstalk”. Determine which part is called as 'Orientation', 'Complication', and 'Resolution'.

Analyzing the Structure

You have learned well so far all about the narrative text. Next, we will meet again with a new interesting material. Keep learning and practicing, students! :)