First Type: Fable Story

I have chosen fable type of story entitled The Donkey Who did not have a Heart
originated from Arabia country to be taught to Year 3 pupils. The book is an Asian Classical
Fables. The story is about a cunning fox who tricked the lion king and a donkey. The lion is
very ill and needed a donkeys heart to cure his illness. He ordered the fox to get a donkey.
Instead, the fox tricked both the lion king and the donkey and the fox ate the heart. The sly
fox managed to escape the lion kings wrath by cheating. This fable is suitable to teach
taught to Year 3 pupils considering the content of the story itself and the moral value
found in the story. It has an interesting plot and storyline to hold students attention and
focus. The event where the fox tricks the donkey for the second time creates curiosity
among learners to further read and discover the happenings occurred later in the story.
Furthermore, the story The Donkey did not have a Heart can really help children in
language learning potential considering the content of the story. The content of the story is
clear and it is easy for the pupils to understand the story. This story has lots of vocabulary
therefore the pupils can enhance their vocabulary by learning new words in a fun way. For
example in the story, they have words like brave, adventerous, hungry, cave, quick,
firewood, escape, sword, tasty, hurt and many more. The vocabulary words are stated below
of each page. These words provides a nice way to introduce, practice, and review
vocabulary. The difficult vocabulary is highlighted
Moreover, the picture illustration in the story gives learners plenty of help with word
recognition. The colourful pictures in the story make the learners to understand the story
better. For example, the pupils can see clearly how the lion king, fox and the donkey colours.
It shows their animal traits. Besides, it develops the students imaginative thinking to
understand the animals traits. For an example, fox is portrayed to be cunning and likes to
prank in order to get his way. The lion king is described to be the strongest, bravest and the
king of the jungle. All the other animals will fear him and as for the donkey, it is described to
be weak and feeble minded. The donkey can be easily tricked by the fox and easily killed by
the lion.
Besides, the story contains about 2-5 sentences and 25-50 words each page
considering the length; neither too short nor too long. It provides them with exact information
needed to understand the story better. Regarding the exploitability of the story, various
activities can be designed to increase pupils competence. Role play, information gap, chain
drill, storytelling and guided composition tasks can be created from the storyline and
character to assess students language skills. Indeed, it will enhance their self confidence to
communicate and interact in English.

Second type: Legend type

I have chosen legend type of story entitled The Princess of Gunung Ledang originated
from Malaysia country. The book is published by the Junior Pages. It is suitable to be taught
to Year 3 pupils considering the storyline. It has an interesting plot and content to

hold students attention and focus. It is about a beautiful Princess who lives at the top of
Gunung Ledang. The Sultan of Malacca hears of her beauty and wants to marry her. He will
send his messenger to send his proposal to the Princess. The Princess will demand the
Sultan to give his sons blood in order to marry her. The Sultan of Malacca will forget his
wish to marry her as he could not kill his own blood. He regretted his actions and did not
wish to marry her anymore. He wants to focus on looking after his peoples welfare. The
moral value of the story is that it is wiser to look after the people who are near and closest
to us.

Besides, the colourful, bright and large print illustrations impress learners
to explore the story. Moreover, pictures act as conversation starter between teacher
and learners. They tend to guess and make predictions at the beginning and
throughout the story. The fonts are big enough in each page to support the diction
and clarity. Learners grasp the meaning of the story by sentence choices such as
once upon a time, entourage of elephants and awed by her stunning beauty.
The colourful pictures in the story make the learners to understand the story better.
Besides, the costumes in the story resembles the ancient time whereby it
develops the students imaginative thinking to understand their culture and beliefs.
For an example, in this story, the Princess was wearing the traditional type of
costume that is very beautiful whereas the Sultan is wearing the traditional Malay
costume. Other races get to see and learn the traditional type of costumes through
this story.
Furthermore, the story suits students in a mixed ability classroom. Simple
sentences and some repeated words like Sultan, Princess, messenger,and call
provide a greater chance for the low proficiency students to comprehend the
meaning and understanding of the story. The story can also be used to teach
grammar in terms of tenses. As the story occurred in the past, it is relevant to
introduce past tenses such as shocked, reached, informed and accepted to the
pupils. They will learn the tenses and differentiate between present and past tenses.

Third type: Folktale type

I have chosen Folktale type of story entitled The Haunted Cave originated from Malaysia
country. The book is published by the Junior Pages. The story is suitable for Year 3 pupils as
the storyline is simple and has a strong moral value.
The storyline is very direct and it uses simple words to describe the events happening in
the story. It is about a family of three who lived at the end of a village. Mak Tanjung has two
children named Pekan and Melur. Mak Tanjung wanted to eat the roe of a special fish and
she went to catch the fish. She told the children to keep the roe for her when Melur cooked
the fish. Melur remembered the mothers wishes and kept the roe for her but Pekan who was
very hungry did not listen to his sister. He ended up eating the roe that was kept for Mak
Tanjung. When Mak Tanjung came back, Melur told her that, Pekan had eaten it. Mak
Tanjung was very disappointed with her children. She cried and ran towards a haunted cave
at the end of the village. She cried to the cave to swallow her up. The cave swallowed her
up. The two children could only look as the cave swallowed their mother. Both of them cried
and they regretted for not listening to their mother. They had lost a mother whom they loved
very much. From the storyline, the plot describes about how children should be obedient to
their parents. The pupils will learn a good lesson when this story is used. Moral value is
clearly stressed in this story.
The setting is very suitable for Malaysian pupils as they can relate it with their life
and they are aware of the existence of it. It is to describe the story when pupils are aware of
the place. According to (Miles, 2007), the content explores the setting through the

eyes of children living at the village. They see new sights such as jungle, river, fish
and cave. Pupils are familiar with the settings as it does exist until now. Thus,
authenticity of the folktale relates to readers real life; promoting daily life language
usage in the form of dialogues. Pupils will be able to bridge between written text and
spoken language through this story as there are many dialogues that are used to
speak between the mother and her children.
The illustrations in the book are very bright and colourful. The scenery of the
village is printed beautifully and pupils can see clearly the pictures of the characters
and their facial reactions. Fewer words are needed when pictures are used well to
express the story. Picture illustration in the story gives learners plenty of help with
word recognition. The colourful pictures in the story make the learners to understand
the story better.

TABLE OF CONTENT
BIL

CONTENT

PAGE NUMBER

1.

LAMPIRAN 5

2.

TABLE OF CONTENT

3.

PAIR TASK : ACTIVITIES

3-5

4.

INDIVIDUAL TASK : SHARVNI ARUMUGAM

4-6

5.

INDIVIDUAL TASK :YAKEASWARI MAHENDRA RAJ

5-7

6.

REFERENCES

7.

APPENDIX

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FIRST TYPE :
FABLE

SECOND TYPE:
LEGEND

THIRD TYPE:
FOLKTALE

APPENDIX
(YAKEASWARI)

REFERENCES