This study was to develop criteria to evaluate story structure. So oral stories that were produced by young children when their teachers individually asked them to tell their story on three storytelling activities were collected. 227 stories they told...
This study was to develop criteria to evaluate story structure. So oral stories that were produced by young children when their teachers individually asked them to tell their story on three storytelling activities were collected. 227 stories they told were analyzed with story structure, centering, chaining and complexity.
As results of grouping stories, 227 stories are divided into five groups.
Group 1: There wasn't any story structure. A story was a series of unrelated events.
Group 2: There wasn't any story structure. A story was organized with sequence.
Group 3: There were ‘beginning’ and ‘development’ story elements. Events being related to a central core appeared. The use of chaining introduced the temporal and causal relation into developing story schema.
Group 4: There were ‘beginning’, ‘development’ and ‘ending’ story elements. Centering and chaining are evident. Events follow a logical order that includes either implicit of explicit causal relations, and they are organized around a conceptual center, a theme that evolves over the course of the story. But the story was very simple.
Group 5: There were ‘beginning’, ‘development’ and ‘ending’ story elements. Centering and chaining are evident. Events follow a logical order that includes either implicit of explicit causal relations, and they are organized around a conceptual center, a theme that evolves over the course of the story. And the story was complex.