Reading for Emotion is an innovative learning model created by Ania Lian in 2017. Through this model, Students can dive into reading and improve their literacy by incorporating emotions into six stages: focus, disturbance, dialogue, development, resolution, and moral. These six stages of emotions usually called as the structure of Reading for Emotions (RfE). The predictive aspect of this structure encourages students to use textual details and clues to anticipate what might happen next in the story. The RfE sequence appears broader and more detailed breaking down the text into smaller units. Through this RfE approach students can comprehend the text better and get engaged with the emotions of the texts.
Here is the detail explanation of each structure of Reading for Emotions:
Focus is concerned with the text's main point. Focus will usually appear first in a canonical text structure, but this is not always the case.
Disturbance stage introduces "complication," an event that causes an emotional shift. It does not have to be negative; it could be unexpected.
Dialogue is a section in which various perspectives on the Disturbance are presented.
Development stage discusses what happened because of the Disturbance.
Resolution refers to the way the problem was resolved.
Moral is a take-away message addressing the contrast between the Focus and the Disturbance.
Focus:
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content.
Disturbance:
An Ant passes by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn they were taking to the nest.
Dialogue:
'Why not come and chat with me,' said the Grasshopper, 'instead of toiling and moiling in that way?'
'I am helping to lay up food for the winter,' said the Ant, 'and recommend you do the same.'
'Why bother about winter?' said the Grasshopper: 'we have got plenty of food at present.'
Development:
But the Ant went on its way and continues its toil.
Resolution:
When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing everyday corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer.
Moral:
Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.