Narrative writing is a writing strategy with using children’s favorite stories, which are made up of five elements, plot, setting, characters, theme, and point of view. The structure of stories looks quite complicating for children to understand. But Applebee (1980; cited in Tomkins, 2008, p. 200) asserts he found that by the time children begin kindergarten, they have already developed a concept of what a story is, and these expectations guide them as they respond to stories and tell their own stories. Tompkins adds, “Child develop their concept of story through listening to stories read aloud and telling stories during the preschool years” (2008, p. 210). Thus, teachers should encourage children to try it after teaching basic information for narrative writing and showing many types of narrative writing examples. DLesson (2010) states, “Students must see what a narrative essay looks like and what conventions it uses before they can learn to write one of their own.”
According to Minkyu Kim, children can learn reading by being read stories, writing by reading books, and finally making stories on their own. I can say that again. Exactly it proves what Applebee and Tompkins say above is right. Children already have a concept of a story learned inductively inside and they can even tell their own stories. So what teachers need to do is only to help them draw and develop their potentials with teaching basic writing information.
References
DLesson (2010). How to teach narrative writing. eHow, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/how_2181924_teach-narrative-writing.html
Tomkins, G. E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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