COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

“Teaching Reading”
for Senior High School
Content:

 Definition of Reading
 Definition of narrative text
 Generic Structures of Narrative Text
 The grammatical features of narrative text
The Smartest Animal
 Exercise
 Definition of reading
According to Burhan (2012: 9), Reading is a physic
and mental activity to reveal the meaning of the
written texts, while in that activity there is a process
of knowing letters. It says a physic activity because the
parts of the body, our eyes particularly do it. And it
says mental activity because perception and memory
as parts of thought are involved in it. He then
concludes that the main goal of reading is a process of
comprehending written texts.

CONTENT
 Definition of Narrative Text
• Narrative text is a story with
complication or problematic events and it
tries to find the resolutions to solve the
problems. An important part of narrative
text is the narrative mode, the set of
methods used to communicate the
narrative through a process narration.
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse
or to entertain the reader with a story.
 Generic Structures of Narrative Text

1) Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the
participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

2) Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the
main participants.

3) Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad
(tragic) ending

4) Re-orientation
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral
lesson, advice or teaching from the writer
Content
 THE GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF
NARRATIVE TEXT
There are some grammatical features of narratives, those are:
1. Use of adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals, or
things in the story, such as …. a wonderful and beautiful castle;
2. Use of time connectives and conjunctions to sequence events through
time, such as however, although, later, then;
3. Use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular events, such
as once upon a time, long time ago;
4. Use of past tenses, such as the gray donkey slowed;
5. Use of action verbs to indicate the actions, such as fleed, explained,
provided, smashed; and
6. Use of saying and thinking verbs to indicate what characters are feeling,
thinking, or saying, such as told, realized, decided.
The Smartest Animal
Once there was a farmer in Laos.
Every morning and afternoon he
plowed his field with the help of his
buffalo.
One day a tiger saw the farmer and his
buffalo working. The tiger was
surprised to see a big animal listening
to a small animal. He wanted to know
more about the buffalo and the man.
After the man went home, the tiger spoke to the buffalo.
“You are so big and strong, Why do you do everything the
man tells you?”
“Oh, the man is very intelligent.”
So the next day the tiger said to the man. “Can I see your
intelligence?” But the man answered, “It’s at home.”
“Can You go and get it?” asked the tiger.
“Yes,” said the man, “But I’m afraid you will kill my
buffalo when I am gone. He took his plow and hit the tiger
with a stick. Then he said. “Now you know about my
intelligence even if you haven’t seen it.”
 Exercise
3. How many characters are there in the story?
en?
1. Where did the story happ a. Three
a. In the Zoo b. Five
b. In the Forest c. Four
d. Six
c. In the Field e. Seven
d. In the Park
e. In the River
4. “The tiger was surprised to see big
animal listening to a small animal” (paragraph 2
ow his line 2)
2. When does the farmer pl The underlined word means.....
field? A. Hear
rn in g an d af te rn oo n
a. In the mo B. Afraid
en in g
b. In the morning and ev C. Obey
c. Only in the afternoon D. Weak
d. Only in the morning E. Lazy
e. In the midnight
5. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
a. Farmer and his buffalo working
b. Big animal listening to a small animal
c. The farmer show his intelligence
d. The tiger want to see farmer’s intelligence
e. The farmer plow his field

6. What can we learn from the story?

a. Never underestimate others
b. We have to plow the field everyday
c. A buffalo is more intelligent than a tiger
d. The size of body determines the power
e. Never plow the field in the morning
Your answer is……….

CORRECT
Your answer is……..

WRONG