SELECTION AND ADAPTATION

OF MATERIALS IN TEACHING
STORIES

TSLB3093 LANGUAGE ARTS IN THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

JESTER DANIEL
MOHD ROSLAN CHEE Task 2 : a) ii
JULIAN JULIO
IN TERMS OF INTEREST
VALUE..
Attractive illustrations in showing the storyline to the students (Carney &
Levin, 2002)
Provide pictures and clear fonts

Colorful

Use concept like comics, magazine

Online storybook, multimedia (Smeets & Bus, 2014)

Animation in stories

Videos and sounds

Variety in stories

Genre
Appropriate with students age and interest

Moral values
EXAMPLE OF ATTRACTIVE
ILLUSTRATIONS
ONLINE AND
MULTIMEDIA
IN TERMS OF LEARNERS
LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY..
Complexity of the words must be at level with students
proficiency (Turkan & Possinger, 2014)
Do not use too many complex words in materials or too many simple words

Words counts must not be lengthy

Too much words can lead to boredom and loss of interest
IN TERMS OF LEARNERS
MATURITY IN STORIES..
Use materials that is familiar to the students (Moiseenko, 2015)
Students can relate to their current surroundings

Example; pets at home, family, past experienced

Use source that is suitable for the students age (Vari, 2002)
Not too explicit

Suitable content for children

Not sensitive

Easy to relate
Connected to the learning content

Have a clear path in building up the lesson

FAMILIAR TO
STUDENTS
IN TERMS OF PRACTICALITY..
Materials is not to heavy for students to do
Keep it level with the students ability

Not to hard, not to easy to understand

Right amount of content, not more than 2 learning

objectives (Petty,2013)
Keep the objectives of lesson at minimal

Do not packed to much things into one

VS
IN TERMS OF COST AND
AVAILABILITY..
Can get alternative such as electronics story book and
laminated materials, can save cost and re-use
(Olinghouse,2008)
Use what we have, not wasting too much source on one single materials

Electronics materials can be flexible and laminated materials can be re-use and
efficient

Try not to add up unnecessary decorations in story materials

Too much decorations

Wasting resources on non related content

ELECTRONICS AND
LAMINATED MATERIALS
TOO MUCH
DECORATION
S