Exploring Realistic Fiction

Exploring Realistic Fiction

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to define realistic fiction and identify its key elements.

What do you already know about realistic fiction?

What is Realistic Fiction?

Realistic fiction is a genre of stories that are made up but could happen in real life. They often feature characters who face real-world problems and situations.

Key Elements of Realistic Fiction

Realistic fiction stories have characters, settings, and events that feel like they could happen in real life. They may include dialogue and describe emotions and actions realistically.

Examples of Realistic Fiction

Some examples of realistic fiction books for grade 2 students are 'The Relatives Came' by Cynthia Rylant and 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' by Judith Viorst.

Identifying Realistic Fiction

To identify realistic fiction, look for stories that have characters and events that could happen in real life. Pay attention to details that make the story feel believable.

Interactive Activity: Real or Not Real?

Read a short passage or description to the students and ask them to decide if it is realistic fiction or not. Discuss their answers as a class.

Writing Realistic Fiction

Encourage students to write their own realistic fiction stories. Remind them to include characters, settings, and events that could happen in real life.

Review and Reflection

Recap the key elements of realistic fiction and have students share their own stories if time permits. Reflect on what they have learned.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.