Teaching Narrative Stories

Narrative text

​Mr Saidiman

​What's Narrative Text ?

Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a series of connected chronological events. 

​The purpose of narrative text

The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a tale or stories.

​Types of Narrative Text

The following is an example of the genre of Narrative text:

§  Fairy tales

§  mystery

§  Science fiction

§  romance

§  Horror

§  Fables

§  Myths and legends

§  history

§  Slices of life

§  Personal experience

§  and so forth

Narrative Text Structure

1. Orientation

• Orientation or commonly called the introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.

2. Complications

• Complication tells the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly called the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story.

Narrative Text Structure

3. Resolution

• This section is the end of the story or a solution to the problem that occurred. Problems can be solved for the better or worse which will make the story end happily or vice versa.

4. Re-orientation

• It is the closing of a story which is optional. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author.

Drag and Drop

Which does the following include the narrative text structure ?​ ​

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Resolution

Conjunctions

Romance

Argument