K. BALASUBRAMANIAN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS MADURAI.9

1. Expository Text
AND NARRATIVE

2. K.BALASUBRAMANIAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF
PRECEPTORS
MADURAI-9

3. Introduction
Reading coursework in a particular content area helps students better
understand what they learn in classrooms. In the contemporary
classroom, literacy instruction is one of the most important disciplines
for preparing students for higher education, and all the teaching-
learning classroom teachers said they always spent more time on
reading activities. This teaching helps children how to read, educators
also can equip their students with the learning tools necessary, and
not only to succeed throughout their education and careers but also
in everyday activities such as reading habits. Literacy in education
involves a number of learning aspects, but one of the most important
factors is reading comprehension. All reading instruction, including
phonics, fluency, and vocabulary development, leads to the ultimate
goal of comprehension. These reading comprehension narratives and
expository texts help with complication or problematic events and find
the resolutions to solve the problems

4. EXPOSITORY TEXT
Different types of text require the
students to use for different types
of skills and there are many
different styles of writing that are
educators are taught in schools.
Expository texts require a reader to
“construct meaning” while
reading, however, narrative texts
focus more on the “elements” of
storytelling. Expository texts draw
more on background knowledge
and evoke processing of details,
whereas narrative texts elicit
processing of the thematic structure
and not so much of details.
It is critical for educators to teach
students, all the skills necessary to
use for different texts because
expository texts use different text
structures and more complex
grammar to get information across
than narratives. However, more
importantly, these necessary skills
have to be taught in the primary
grades students and continued
into the secondary grades.
Narrative and expository texts
have different purposes; here is
the some difference purposes
between Expository and Narrativ
e

5. DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN
EXPOSITORY
AND
NARRATIVE

6. Expository Narrative
It is descriptive in nature. It is a style of writing that can be called story telling
It is factual and contains a lot of details in the form of facts. It contains figures of speeches
The content is organized. While, it can be without chronology.
It is mostly factual. Whereas, It can be both fact and fiction.
It is used by authors mostly in text books. It is used by authors writing novels and short stories.
It require the use skills of comparing and contrasting, drawing
conclusions, and evaluating the overall text.
It require such skills of understand theme, characterization, and
overall story structure.
Expository texts can include magazines, biographies,
newspapers, essays, technical documents and subject matter
textbooks.
Narrative reading is grouped around novels, plays, short stories,
poetry and folktales
The main purpose of expository text is to inform, describe, and
report.
The main purpose of narrative text is to tell a story

7. Expository (Informational) Text Structure:
Expository text is information-based text, which it’s, exists to provide facts in a way that is
educational and purposeful. Consequently, educators can teach the child the prospective
six main types of expository text:
Process (how-to),
Problem-solution,
Comparison-contrast,
Definition,
Classification, and
Cause-effect.
Each of those has its slightly different structure and purpose and the purpose is merely to
inform-to provide information. Some common examples are:
1.Textbooks
2.News articles
3.Instruction manuals
4.Language books
5.Self-help books

8. IMPORTANCE
Expository texts strive to educate
children based on facts, rather than
telling a story. Most expository texts
are structured to facilitate the study
process for prospective, however,
most children find expository texts
more difficult to comprehend than
narrative texts but this is
particularly the case for struggling
reading children. There are several
reasons why expository texts pose
a challenge in the learning text
because children are often
unfamiliar with expository texts as
most reading activities in the early
grades in elementary school.
EXPOSITORY TEXT

9. How do Teacher to teach expository text
Most of the expository text is typically structured with visual cues such
as headings and subheadings, which provide clear cues as to the structure of the
information. Teaching these structures can help students recognize relationships between
ideas and the overall intent of the text.
1.Introduce the text structures in order, starting with description and finishing with
compare/contrast.
2.Introduce and work on a single text structure in each lesson.
3.Prepare short passages (about six to eight lines) for the text structure you are going to work
on in that session.
The problem teacher’s face is that expository text reading tends to be more difficult for
students than a typical story. Several characteristics of expository text may contribute to this
difficulty:
Technical vocabulary
High density of facts
Unfamiliar content
Cognitively demanding concepts
There are several strategies teachers can use to help students identify the text structure. Learning to
recognize the structure of expository text may help students focus on the important information in a particular
passage and can serve as a foundation for attaining the other text structure objectives.

10. NARRATIVE TEXT
1.The narrative is central to
children’s learning, and it tells
a story with a lot of emotion.
2.Teachers can use different
types of text reading to
promote growth in teaching-
learning behaviors.
3.The primary purpose of
narrative text is to entertain
readers and narrative is
essentially telling a story.
4.So teachers can increase their
teaching effectiveness in reaching
more students by integrating content
narrative text literacy with best
strategies into their regular classroom
instruction.
5. Effective narrative techniques
provide deeper meaning for the
children and help them to use
imagination to visualize situations and
it is an important part of teaching-
learning because of using content area
literacy strategies, students may
increase their abilities to internalize
writing content of courses.

11. Instruction difficulties of Narrative
Many students in the classroom may have difficulty
achieving reading skills, and these difficulties may
become even more serious over time if instructions are
not modified to address the students’ specific needs.
Unless these students receive appropriate intervention
from their teacher, they will continue to struggle, and
the gap between their educational achievement and
that of their peers will widen over time.

12. Narrative texts are consistently found to be the
most difficult texts for students at school, and
even for teachers when teaching them narrative
writing. Many teachers separate personal
narratives from short stories, while it was more
challenging to get them to make something up
from scratch because the narrative is a
story. This term can be used as a noun or an
adjective. As a noun, narrative refers to the story
being told. It is the account of events,
experiences, and details. It also refers to the
story-telling process.