108 a. “Come on, who wants to help brother Tiko” three times,
b. “I am sorry, we can not help you, brother Tiko, we are playing” three times,
c. Tiko went alone…the apple tree in garden also three times. 2. Since the story has some illustration pictures, the teacher or the story teller can
show them some kinds of pictures like colors, how to plant a plant, how to water a plant, and how to fertilize a plant.
3. It has the different characters-diligent and lazy. 4. 4. It has sequences of the time, such as one day, the following day, and finally.
5. The consequence is being diligent and lazy mice.
2. “Scat Scat, Little Cat”
The story tells about a little cat that has no home to stay. Wherever it goes , a little cat found that it was chased away by the owner of the house. At last a little cat could
find a home to stay after a little girl took it to her home. In this story, the teacher or the story teller wants to tell:
a. The concept of accessibility; 1 it is familiar since the topic is about pet, cat, 2 it uses good grammar which is important for young learners living in less exposure
circumstance. b. The concept of exploitability; 1 repetition of words, e.g. little, and 2 functional
expressions, e.g. scat, scat go away little cat. c. The visual attraction; it uses colorful pictures which mostly attract children’s
attention. d. Imaginative story; it is also interesting for children.
I put this story in the second arrangement for the reason that it possesses less exploitability compared to the first one.
a. Loving the animal a little cat. b. Introduce some words by having repetition words, like scat, scat, a little cat
c. Describe a white cat and its picture d. Describe the old woman who dislike the cat, and a little girl who like cat.
3. “A Little Green Leaves”
The story tells about the green leaves in the autumn. When the autumn comes one by one of little green leaves turn ground and fell into the ground, except one. It fells
lonely on the tree, but at last, a bird took and put it into the ground, so that it felt comfortable with its brothers and sisters.
The teacher or the story teller wants to tell about autumn season when all green leaves will change become brown and fell into the ground. But the children will
probably fell confused to autumn season because Indonesian children do not know what exactly autumn is, since Indonesia just has two seasons, rainy and dry. In this
case, the story teller should change the autumn with the dry season. The things which can be explored by this story are:
a. The concept of accessibility; 1 it is familiar to the children, the leaf, 2 it is simple in line with the form of language use and the length, and 3 it uses good
grammar which is important for young learners living in less exposure of that language.
b. The concept of exploitability; 1 repetition words, like little green leaf, and 2 functional expressions, such as autumn is coming, yippee, go ahead, jump.
109 c. The visual attraction; it uses colorful pictures which mostly attract children’s
attention. d. Imaginative story; it is also interesting for children. However, the context of this
story is abstract for children since it tells about autumn and spring which unfamiliar with them. The strange context requires the teacher to expose more
information to make the children more familiar with the context. e. A season when all green leaves turn down to brown
f. The happiness of little green leaf live together with its brothers and sisters
4. “The Chickens Take a Holiday”
