INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU

KAMPUS RAJANG,

96509 BINTANGOR,SARAWAK.

PROGRAM IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA PERGURUAN

SEMESTER 04/ AMBILAN JANUARI 2013

STORIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT

TASK 2 (B): DEVISING INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES

NAME : TANG SIEW TIEN

INDEX NUMBER : 1207

IC NUMBER : 931129-13-6036

GROUP : PISMP - TESL SEM 4 JANUARY INTAKE 2013

SUBJECT : STORIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

SUBJECT CODE : LGA 3033E LECTURER’S NAME : MADAM LAILY BINTI YAHYA

DATE OF SUBMISSION : 7th OCTOBER 2014

TEACHING

STEPS OF

THE

ACTIVITY

JUSTIFICATION OF THE ACTIVITY

Steps of the Activity:

1. 10 students are needed to come to the front and get the picture cards from

teacher.

2. The students can discuss among themselves and arrange the sequences of

the picture cards within 5 minutes.

3. Take the numbers down and place the picture cards according to the

sequences correctly.

Example:

4. After the students put the picture cards, they need to build a sentence based

on the pictures.

Example:

The prince and princess were married and lived happily ever after.

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1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1

2 STORY CHOSEN – THE FROG PRINCE 2 - 3

3 TEACHING STEPS OF THE ACTIVITY 4 - 7

4 JUSTIFICATION OF THE ACTIVITY 7 - 8

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, it would not have been possible without the kind support

and help of many individuals. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all of

them.

We are highly indebted to our respected lecturer, Madam Laily Binti Yahya

for her guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary

information regarding the assignment. She had been very kind and patient while

suggesting us the outlines of this assignment. Thanks and appreciation to her for

giving us such attention and her support in completing this assignment.

My thanks and appreciations also go to my family for giving me such

attention and their support in completing this assignment. I would like to express

my gratitude to them because without their support, definitely I do not have the

strength to finish this coursework successfully.

I would like to extend my thanks towards my fellow coursemates for their

kind co-operation and encouragement which help me in completion of this

assignment.

Figure 1: The columns is to put the numbers and picture cards.

Figure 2: The numbers show the flow of the story.

Figure 3: Students need to arrange and put the picture cards according to the sequences.

Figure 4: The picture cards must match with the numbers.

Figure 5: Place the picture cards in and take the numbers out.

Figure 6: This is the corect sequence of the picture cards according to the story.

Justification of Activity Chosen

Language is always fun to learn but children these days are afraid to enter language

classes especially the English class due to poor command or formality basis. Teachers

should be creative enough to attract young learners to learn language by providing a

non-threatening atmosphere. Stories are a dynamic platform to learn language as it is

not just winning and completing the challenges but they are learning grammar and

vocabulary as an entertainment rather than fleeing away from the class. Different types

of genre of stories allow a teacher to be talented to use the stories creatively and

effectively in English classrooms.

The activity is constructed around a sequence of events. Students gain a deeper

understanding of the story by retelling the proper order of important event in stories,

describing cause and effect relationships and how the events effect the central meaning

of the story. Knowing the sequence of events in a story helps us to picture what is

happening and when. It helps make the story clear and easy to follow. When events are

not in order, the story become blurry and hard to follow. Besides that, it helps to

incorporate higher order thingking skills among students. It is not just teach vocabulary

and grammar but at the same time they also boost attention skills, critical thinking skills,

and independent learning skills. It is because students need to recall the story and at the

same time it incorporate thinking skills in students. In the activity, they can discuss

among themselves and arrange the picture cards according to the sequences.They will

think of what happens next, what is the ending of the story and the others.

Sequencing is not a natural skill, and many young children recall stories and

episodes, not so much through the sequence of important events, but through a

collection of salient features that seemed relevant or interesting to the student. This

activity is learner-centred and innovative. It is because students that have been chosen

will go to the front and get the picture cards from teacher. Students will be given time to

discuss among themselves and arrange the picture cards according to the sequences.

Lastly, they need to build a sentence based on the pictures. As we can see, there is no

teacher- centred in this activity.

In addition, this activity will gain confidence of students in using the language. In this

activity, they are required to make a sentence by themselves. Besides, students use

their own creativity to build the sentences based on the pictures as the students feel free

to use language to build the sentence, not necessary need bombastic language but as

long as the sentence is simple and understandable. Teacher may guide them if they are

using the wrong words. Students can learn faster if they learn from mistakes. Another

thing is when the child thinks he/she has the correct order, have him or her to make a

sentence. If the pictures are in wrong position,tell the child why it does not make sense

and have them to rearrange the sequences. The students will gain their confidence in

learning.

Apart from that, according to the content standard of the primary English language

curriculum standard document, by the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be

able to plan, organize and produce creative works for enjoyment. According to the

learning standard, through this story, it can fulfill the objective as they are able to take

part with guidance based on stories which stated in the learning standards of the primary

English language curriculum standard document 4.3.2.

By using stories not only can make the lesson more interesting, students also will

enjoy and really can learn something from it. Although it is a very good way implement

the stories into the lesson, but we need to know which stories are suitable to the children

very important in choosing the stories. This is a very important aspect because if we

choose a story that is not suitable to children, children will have tendency to lose interest

toward learning the language. So, as a teacher, I need to keep in mind that I need justify

the suitability of the story that I am going to use in the lesson in future.