Staal? defines the story face as a strategy that provides a visual
fiamework for understanding, identifying, and remembering elements in
narrative text. In this research, the researcher studies the eflect of story
face strategy on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text
‘The good of teaching reading is the students can understand the text by
using their current knowledge. The students need training in the process of
reading by themselves and the teacher should find the appropriate strategy in
teaching reading to his/her students. The main point in finding the strategy for
reading is to get information even though they do not understand the whole
text. Story face is considered vitally important to train the students in this
skill.
‘The story face is one of the strategies that can be usefill for the teacher in
teaching reading of a narrative text. Virginia Department of Education (2004)
states the story face is a graphic organizer that can aids students in reading
of narrative text. It looks story map, only it is shaped like a face. It functions
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like a story map which allows the students to visualize important components
ofa narrative text.
Furthermore, story fice focus on providing the students with an
organizational guide to use when reading that includes principal component
of story such as main character, setting, action and outcome. Klinger (2007)explains the story face is an adaptation of story mapping that provides visual
framework for understanding, identifying and remembering elements in
narrative text,
Applying story face in teaching reading has several advantages. Staal in
Klinger (2007) describes several strengths of story face strategy: it (1) is easy
to construct, (2) is easy to remember, (3) can guide retelling, (4) is
collaboratively learned through discovery, (5) is flexible, and (6) provides a
framework that can facilitate narrative writing,
From the expknation above, it is conchided that story face can be
defined as.a graphic organizer aids students in reading of narrative text. It
looks story map, only it is shaped like a face. Story face provides visual
framework for understanding, identifying and remembering elements in
narrative text,
Story Face Strategy
Staal in Klingner et al (2007498), Story Face is an adaptation of
story mapping that provides a visual frame work for understanding,
identifying. and remembering ements in narrative text. The Story Face
constructed by making the eyes, eyelashes, nose, mouth,