LGA Task 1 A

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Task 1 ( a )

1. 2 samples of different story for use in Years 1 – 3 and Years 4 – 6.

2. Justification on the samples chosen.

2 samples of dif ferent story for Years 1 – 3

1. The Good Hearted Cockerel ( Fables )

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2. Jack And The Robber ( Fairytales)

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2 samples of dif ferent story for Years 4 – 6

1. The Little Red Hen ( Fables )

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2. Snow White And The Seven Dwarf ( Fairytales )

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Justification

Recent trend in ESL classroom teaching indicates the necessity of integrating

literature because of its rich potential to provide an authentic model of language use.

Among literary genres, short stories seem to be the most suitable choice for children

due to its potential to help students enhance the four main skills – listening,

speaking, reading and writing. Moreover, it is effectively help by the motivational

benefits embedded in the stories. Theoretically, using of short story in language

teaching is very advantageous for it offers four benefits – authentic material, cultural

enrichment, language advancement and personal growth ( Collie & Slater, 1991 ).

For the 2 samples that we chose for the Years 1 – 3, the story of Jake And

The Robber and The Good Hearted Cockerel offers the good moral values that

teacher can absorb to the students during the teaching and learning activity. For

examples, Jake who is the robber actually not the cruel robber because, he robbed

people to help the poor people. But for our culture, teacher can explain that

according to our Malaysian culture robber is still not a good job. We can help poor

people with other way which is more appropriate. The story of The Good Hearted

Cockerel teach us how to stay loyal to our master. For this story, teacher can

introduce the moral values that contained in the story in other to show the student

the good part of the story and also to bring the learners to learn to see a world

through another’s eyes, observing human values and a different kind of living and

discovering that others living in very different societies. Through story, learners can

deepen their cultural understanding by listening and reading the story together with

their teacher. So, teacher need to make sure that the story is also related to their real

life experience. Besides, the setting and the illustration is very interesting and

colourful. There are varieties of coloured pictures which can attract the learners’

attention. My partner was using one of the book entitled Jack And The Robbers, and

according to her reading, the story is easy to understand because it shows the flow

of the story where the characters move from place to place. In other words, teacher

is helping the learners to imagine and understanding the describe story. At first,

teacher tell the story and learners just listen, so if the story is clearly narrated by the

teacher, the learners will sure like the story. For these two books, the length of the

story is in adequate and suitable for their level and their age. It is important for

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teacher to choose the suitable length of story book because this is to avoid children

from lose attention during the story telling conducted by the teacher.

The other 2 story books that we chose for our Years 4 – 6 children are The

Little Red Hen ( Folktales ) and Snow White And The Seven Dwarf – The Long

Version( Fairy Tales ). The Little Red Hen was extracted from the Collection Of My

Treasury Animals Tales And Rhymes published by Hinkler Books Pty Ltd, Australia.

We chose the book and the story because the characters are familiar with the

children. They know the certain animals for examples, hen, chick, cat and pig, but I

made some changes for one of the animals to respect my children’s culture. For the

Snow White And The Seven Dwarf – The Long Version, they might heard about the

original version of the story, so why not we introduced them the new length of the

Snow White and some attractive illustrations. We agreed to choose these two books

for the Years 4 – 6 children, they have more authentic words, themes and

unexpected language. For my opinion, it is a chance for teacher to introduce new

words through story in order to help the learners to enhance their vocabulary

knowledge and expose the learners to become familiar with different forms of

language. Literary texts expose learners to fresh themes and unexpected language.

In this sense, ‘a literary text is authentic text, real language in context, to which wecan respond directly’,( Brumfit And Carter, 1986, p. 15 ). The storyline and the length

is suitable for their level. The story shows the smooth and understandable flows of

the storyline. For The Little Red Hen, I think it convey the happy ending when the

hen lastly can get its own bread and not sharing with other animals which are lazy to

help the hen to make the flour. It shows the win-win situation between the hen and

other animals. Overall, these 4 story books really suitable for our students and we

will use some of the book for our story telling session. We will use Jack And The

Robbers for the Year 3 class and The Little Red Hen for the Year 4 class. We will

use the books as the main resource and the slide presentation for our students to

see the illustrations. We think, we have made a best choice for our story books and

we hope that we can make it interesting during the presentation.

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LGA Task 1 A