d. Draw additional ties projecting out symmetrically from each secondary box to
accommodate the important details associated with the key plot event, adding relevant information from the summary list.
e. Review the final semantic chart or story map for completeness.
Based on the explanation above we can make the graphic of story mapping as below :
Figure 2.1 Graphic Story Map
4. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Story Mapping
Story mapping has some advantages and disadvantages. For its advantages, it could be helpful for students and also for the teacher. Pamela stated
in her book , “When created as part of the process of preparing a reading lesson,
teachers become more involved in thinking about the structure of the story they are to teach and how each part of the story relates to the others.” In other words,
by completing a story map, students can focus on the lesson and teacher can improve the quality of teaching.
Students also get many benefits through story mapping. The following are some advantages for students :
a. Mapping enables students to store information in their personal schema more
efficiently. b.
Facilitates the recall of story elements more completely and accurately
Outcome Problem
Characters
Setting Characters
Title
c. Students can more easily see how the story pieces mesh.
d. The students’ knowledge continually applies when they predict what might
happen next in one story after another. e.
To enhance students’ interpretative abilities by enabling them to visualize story characters, events and setting.
f. To increase students’ comprehension of selection by organizing and
sequencing main story events. g.
To develop students’ sense of story which will assist story telling, retelling and writing.
h. To increase students’ awareness that story characters and events are
interrelated.
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On the other side, story mapping has also some disadvantages, as follows: a.
It can be used only in certain kinds of text that is narrative text. b.
The maps can be applied to stories, particularly the shorter text.
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c. Teaching narrative text needs a longer time rather than without using story
mapping. Indeed, the selection is only used for narrative text because it discusses the literary of story.
5. Teaching Narrative Text by Using Story Mapping
