Abstract

Through this research, we focus on the narrative structure specificity in Arabic book directed to 3rd year primary school pupils in Algeria, since the pupil, at this stage, is 9 years old, which is a stage of childhood that has its literature, specificities and circumstances, for the sake of achieving the full reception of a narrative text, which isn’t a normal text, it’s rather characterized with special features making it different than adult literature. It’s a very important field to work on developing it, since today’s child is tomorrow’s man. Therefore, we’ve studied the narrative structure of the stories included within the school book in terms of characters and settings’ structure for focusing on the extent that they’re conducive to the pupil’s perceptive and psychological abilities.

Key words: structure, narration, story, child literature.