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SEQUENCE AND COMMENT ON THE STORY FOR YOUNG
LEARNERS
Muhammad Sukrianto
It has been recognize that story telling is interesting for children world, since it
can train to process the problem in children’s mind. There are so many interesting
stories that suitable for the world of children according to what mission the story teller
want to tell. In EFL learning, the teacher or the story teller should form the particular
content of the story. In evaluating the story, to tell to the children, we should pay
attention on the following criteria:
1. The story should be attractive,

4. Imaginative story; it is also interesting for children.
For the kindergarten school children this story is rather long, but the rich contains
makes me interested in choosing it. Therefore, the teacher or the story teller has to
have the strategies to choose and present what part to focus on.
1. It contains of repetition of the words and sentences, such as:
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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

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”
The story tells about Tim’s farm where there are five chickens and ten cows. The
dialogue between chickens and cows talk about taking a holiday after they work
hard to give the farmer ten eggs and one hundred pails of milk. But at last Tim, the
owner of chickens and cows felt tired after working hard a week and he wants to
take a holiday that week. The things can be explored are:
a. The concept of accessibility; 1) the character, animal, is familiar to the children,
2) it is simple in line with the form of language use, and 3) it uses good
grammar.
b. The concept of exploitability: it uses the functional expressions, like; oh
handsome crow, can you sing.
c. Imaginative story; it is also interesting for children.
There are two reasons why I put this story at the forth rank. Firstly, the presentation
of the story lacks of colorful pictures which makes it less virtual in concept.
Secondly, the story needs an analysis process so quite difficult that the children can
catch the idea of the story.
5. “
Who is the king of the forest?”
a. The concept of accessibility; 1) it is familiar to the children since it talks about
animal character, 2) it is simple whether the language use and the length of the
story, and 3) it uses good grammar which is important for children living in less
exposure of that language.
b. The concept of exploitability; it uses some functional expression which
comprises the body response, e.g. jump.
c. Imaginative story; it is also interesting for children.
Actually, this story is not so far different from the fourth one. I place this story at
the fifth place since it possesses some weaknesses, such as: 1) the concept of virtual
is abstract for children so it is less attractive for them, 2) the plot of the story needs