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RICA Reflection 14 & 15
Comprehension: Narrative and Expository Text
There is a growing demand in the educational field for the reading of both
narrative/literary texts and expository text to be done equally. Both are very
important to a childs education and desire to read, but there are different
instructional strategies to be used when reading the two different genres. In
narrative and literacy text there is a focus on the elements of a story, character,
plot, setting, mood, and theme. While with expository text there is a focus on cause
and effect, problem and solution, comparison and contrast, and the sequence of
events.
Narrative texts are stories. There are characters, a plot, rising of action,
setting, theme, mood, and conclusion. Narratives are used for enjoyment, to teach a
moral lesson, express feeling, tell a story etc. In my third grade classroom I taught a
lesson on Beware of the Storybook Wolves, in this lesson I instructed my students
to focus on the characters and their motivations. At the end of the story we used a
graphic organizer to answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions in the
story. In my third grade classroom, my master teacher is reading the students A
Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket. While reading all of these books,
my master teacher is helping the students identify recurring themes throughout the
chapters, and even interwoven through other books of his. The students have a
running log in their writing journals about patterns they see, and common themes
Lemony Snicket uses in his books.