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

LECTURERS NAME

MADAM LAILY BINTI YAHYA

DATE OF SUBMISSION

7th OCTOBER 2014

TEACHING
STEPS OF
THE
ACTIVITY

JUSTIFICATI
ON 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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CONTENT

PAGES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

STORY CHOSEN THE FROG PRINCE

2-3

TEACHING STEPS OF THE ACTIVITY

4-7

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.