Child develop their concept of story through listening to stories read aloud and telling stories during the preschool years (Tomkins, 2008) the author says that children are ready to learn more about how stories are organized and how authors use the elements of story structure to create stories. “Skills, processes and techniques are tools for a writer, but they are not what bring them to write in the first place. Don't diminish the importance of these. These tools help children to turn their rich life experiences and imaginations into a piece of work that expresses themselves and their beliefs.” (Dlessem, 2010).
Teaching narrative writing is the best way to get elementary school students to begin to develop their writing skills. Through stories, journal entries and other narrative assignments, elementary school students learn how to organize their thoughts and ideas.
According to Kyoung Chun Kim, teachers should encourage children to try it after teaching basic information for narrative writing and showing many types of narrative writing examples. I second that. Children already have a concept of a story a story learned inductively inside and they can even tell their own stories. Teacher should allow students to feel teacher’s approval for their ideas, thoughts, fantasies and issues.
References
Tompkins, G.E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River , NJ
Dlessem (2010). How to Teach Narrative Writing to Elementary School Students eHow.com Inc. Retrieved from
http://www.ehow.com/how_2184715_narrative-writing-elementary-school-students.html How to Teach Narrative Writing to Elementary School Students
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