question archive Choose a young children’s book (i
Choose a young children’s book (i
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Choose a young children’s book (i.e., a book that is mostly pictures with a very sim-ple narrative). Retype the narrative so that you can see it all at once. Then identify thenarrative parts, using the model proposed by Labov and Waletzky. Is anything miss-ing, and if so, what? What might children be learning about storytelling from thiskind of narrative? 2. Print out a copy of the six-year-old’s story (page 286), which you are now going tomark up with different colors and/or different symbols. Identify all the differenttypes of cohesive ties in the story (use the mark-up of the passage from DavidSedaris’s book Naked as an example). How does cohesion in the child’s story com-pare to that in the Sedaris passage? How does it compare to cohesion in MartinLuther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech? Are cohesive strategies among thethree texts similar, or do they help to distinguish one text from another?
