Elements of A Narrative Text
Elements of A Narrative Text
Elements of A Narrative Text
The learner demonstrate understanding of how Philippine Literature under the Period of
Emergence and other text types through using different reading, listening, and viewing
strategies, word relationships and associations, direct and reported speech,
C. Content
passive/active voice, simple past and past perfect tenses, and sentence connectors;
Standards
employing the appropriate oral language and stance in informative speech forms to
express ideas, opinions, feelings, and emotions, serve as tools to assert one’s identity in
a diverse society.
D. Performance
The learner proficiently participates in a simple debate about identity in a diverse society.
Standards
E. Learning
EN7LC-III-a-2.1/3.1: Note specific details of the text listened to
Competencies
II-CONTENT
C. Establishing a What is your favorite story? What is in the story that made it your
purpose for the
lesson favorite?
1. Tell-a-Tale
Each group will be given five random words. With the help of their group mates,
D. Presenting the new each group will try to create a short story with a minimum of three sentences.
lesson Write your story in a bond paper and be ready to tell your story in class.
Group 1: poor boy, old house, anger and pain, success
Group 2: broken family, Disneyland, enjoyment, accident
Group 3: rich and famous girl, casino, fear, soul mate
Group 4: lovers, road accident, bloodshed, moving on
The groups on the right will be the raters of the groups on the left:
Group 1: Group 2
Group 2: Group 4
Group 3: Group 1
Group 4: Group 3
When a writer writes a story, he/she is making a narrative text. There
are two kinds of narrative text:
Fictional Narrative: a narrative taken from the writer’s imagination
Nonfiction Narrative: a narrative that actually happened in real life
such as history or a biography
There are elements for both kinds of narrative texts. These are:
Setting: the time, place, and culture of the text
E. Discussing new
Character: the people, animal, or any animated object
concepts and
practicing new skills Time Order: the logical arrangement of a story
Mood: the emotion or atmosphere of the text
Theme: the concept or idea that the text is all about
1. Explain to the students that what they made is a narrative text and the
questions that they used to rate each other tried to see if the texts
contained the elements of a narrative text.
2. Emphasize that narrative texts used the simple past tense of the verb.
1. Have someone from the class to read this narrative excerpt entitled The Magic
of Harry.
F. Developing
mastery
Group 1. Using a blank map, locate the places where Ehrich went using dots.
Connect the dots afterwards. After that, put your answer to this question below
the map: Why do you think Ehrich had to go to different places?
Group 2: Using different items that you have, choose a member and made him
look like what you imagined Ehrich to look like. On a short bond paper, put your
answer to this question: As told by the narrative text, what trait(s) as a person
did Ehrich show?
Group 3: Using the words FIRST, NEXT, THEN, AFTER THAT, FINALLY, write the
five important events in the text in a short bond paper.
Group 4: Identify the emotion(s) that the text about Ehrich have made you feel
by presenting a tableau. Be ready to mention lines from the text that justify the
emotion(s).
Group 5: Determine the concept about life that the text showed by drawing it on
a short bond paper. Be prepared to explain why the text is about the concept
you drew.
F. Making
What do you call a text that tells you a story?
generalizations and
What are the elements of a narrative text?
abstractions about the
lesson What tense of the verb is used when writing a narrative text?
Directions: Write the letter of your answer.
G. Evaluation
1. Where did the pilot crash his airplane according to the text?
a. ocean b. desert c. beach
2. What happened after the pilot had woken up?
a. He realized that he was very far away from humans
b. He saw a little man asking him to draw a sheep
c. He wished himself to be a sailor
3. Who are the characters in text?
a. a sailor and a little man b. a pilot and a sheep
c. a pilot and a little man
4. What emotion(s) did the author make the readers feel when he narrated that
the pilot had crashed his airplane and suddenly saw a little man out of nowhere?
a. happiness and excitement b. loneliness and amazement
c. sadness and disappointment
5. What concept about life has been featured by the excerpt of the Little Prince?
a. trials and challenges b. love and acceptance
c. death and grieving
IV. A. AGREEMENT
ASSIGNMENT: What are the different transitional devices?
V. REMARKS
VI. REFLECTION
SECTION/S