The document provides an overview of key elements in narrative texts, including plot, characters, setting, point of view, and theme. It explains that authors use descriptive words to develop characters and settings. The plot involves a sequence of events where characters face conflicts that are eventually resolved. Comprehending these elements improves understanding of the story. It also outlines different points of view and how themes can be explicitly stated or implicitly suggested.
The document provides an overview of key elements in narrative texts, including plot, characters, setting, point of view, and theme. It explains that authors use descriptive words to develop characters and settings. The plot involves a sequence of events where characters face conflicts that are eventually resolved. Comprehending these elements improves understanding of the story. It also outlines different points of view and how themes can be explicitly stated or implicitly suggested.
The document provides an overview of key elements in narrative texts, including plot, characters, setting, point of view, and theme. It explains that authors use descriptive words to develop characters and settings. The plot involves a sequence of events where characters face conflicts that are eventually resolved. Comprehending these elements improves understanding of the story. It also outlines different points of view and how themes can be explicitly stated or implicitly suggested.
The document provides an overview of key elements in narrative texts, including plot, characters, setting, point of view, and theme. It explains that authors use descriptive words to develop characters and settings. The plot involves a sequence of events where characters face conflicts that are eventually resolved. Comprehending these elements improves understanding of the story. It also outlines different points of view and how themes can be explicitly stated or implicitly suggested.
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REFSUM M3 LA1
Congratulations, you have completed learning activity 1 about
narrative (folktales). The following are the important things in narrative texts, authors use a variety of words to develop their characters' traits and problems and the story's setting. To describe a character who is typically sloppy, an author does not repeat the word sloppy but creates a sense of this trait with words such as slovenly, chaotic, and disorganized. The unknown words in narrative texts are often synonyms for concepts you already have but are often words that you have not encountered before. Since you are expected to know more than 3.500 word level, the texts selected in this module may use the ones you rarely hear use or hear.
To comprehend a narrative text is to get a sense of plot, theme,
characters, and events, and how they relate. This improves not only comprehension but also the quality and creativity. Plot is sequence of events involving characters in conflict situations: Plot is Beginning, Middle, End or Introduction, Problem, and Resolution To understand the plot: Look for the information included in the introduction of a story: time, place, circumstances, main characters; Look for the series of incidents where main characters go about achieving goals; Call attention to how the goals are achieved or not achieved in the conclusion, and the high point of the action; and Make time lines of the story. Characters are the people or personified animals who are involved in the story. Setting: Components of setting: Location; Weather; Time Period; Time of Day To identify key aspect of setting: Find words and phrases that signal the time and place a story occurs. Read the beginnings of stories and noting the clues for time and place. Point of View is seen from the perspective of
1. First Person: a) Story is told through eyes of one person; b) Reader
experiences story as the narrator views it; and c) Found mostly in picture books. 2. Third Person: a) readers can know the viewpoint of one character; b) The author is godlike: sees and knows all, c) Found mostly in chapter books; Theme is the underlying meaning of a story: Truths about human nature; Characters' emotions and feelings; and they can be explicit (stated openly) or implicit (suggested).