I. Reading Comprehension:

Narrative:

Generic Structure: - Orientation
- Complication
- Resolution
- Re-orientation
example :

“THE SLEEPING BEAUTY”
ORIENTATION
Long time ago a king and a queen had a baby girl. There was a bad old fairy who said, “The princess is going to cut her hand on a spindle and die.”
The good fairy came and said, “She is not goingv to die. She will cut her hand on a spindle and sleep for a hundred years. Then the prince will come and she will wake up.”
COMPLICATION
Seven years passed and the princess grew-up to be a beautiful and clever girl.
One day she went to a part of the palace where she had never been before. She sat down in front of an old spinning while and cut her hand on a spindle then she went to sleep and so did every one else in the palace.
RESOLUTION
A hundred years later a young prince came and saw the palace among high trees. He went upstairs.
RE-ORIENTATION
The prince came to a room and found the princess was sleeping. He kneeled beside her and said, “Wake up sleeping beauty.”
The princess woke up and at once, everybody else woke up, too. The prince married sleeping beauty and together they lived happily ever after.