This Realistic Fiction Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. It focuses on the realistic fiction genre and subgenres.
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This Realistic Fiction Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. It focuses on the realistic fiction genre and subgenres.
This Realistic Fiction Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. It focuses on the realistic fiction genre and subgenres.

Realistic Fiction Library Lesson

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This Realistic Fiction Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. Part I introduces the realistic fiction genre, with emphasis on characteristics of realistic fiction and subgenres. Part II is a scrolling slideshow with trivia questions, classic realistic fiction literature quotes, would you rathers, and more!

Though students may be familiar with the featured stories from movies, this presentation emphasizes realistic fiction literature, not movies.

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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS REALISTIC FICTION LIBRARY LESSON:

  • Recommended for: Grades 6-12
  • Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
  • Editable: YES, all text is editable
  • Lesson duration: 25-30 minute whole-group discussion + 21-minute scrolling slideshow (timed at 45 seconds for each of the 26 Part II slides)

 

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

  • 51 PPT slides + Google™ Slides
  • Recommended Reads bookmarks (2 pages, editable)

 

PART I INCLUDES:

  • review of genre (what is genre)
  • students’ preliminary thoughts on the realistic fiction genre
  • characteristics of realistic fiction
  • why we should read realistic fiction (empathy, relatability, learning about social issues, and may be easier to read)
  • realistic fiction mixes well with other genres – e.g., romance, survival, sports, humor, mystery
  • conflict
  • role of technology
  • narration (1st, 2nd, 3rd person)
  • alternating perspectives
  • subgenres of realistic fiction
  • subgenre focus – problem fiction – characteristics and examples
  • subgenre focus – coming-of-age – characteristics and examples
  • subgenre focus – travel fiction – characteristics and examples
  • two slides for checkout procedures and reminders

 

PART II INCLUDES:

This is a scrolling slideshow. If you time the Part II slides at 45 seconds each, the realistic fiction slideshow will 21 minutes in length.

  • 5 things tips for writing realistic fiction
  • literary terms: setting, internal conflict, external conflict, characters, dialogue, introduction, alternating perspectives, foreshadowing, Bildungsroman, 1st person narration, 2nd person narration, 3rd person narration, epistolary
  • magical realism subgenre
  • What are unreliable narrators?
  • why some narrators are unreliable
  • how to detect an unreliable narrator
  • Word of the Week: epistolary and foreshadowing
  • 3 would you rathers
  • 1 This or That
  • 1 trivia question + answer
  • 1 What do you think?
  • 1 True/False question
  • Daily and weekly schedule
  • Announcements
  • Reminders
  • This week’s birthdays
  • every slide contains a photo or secondary-appropriate clipart

 

REALISTIC FICTION LITERATURE MENTIONED:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • multiple YA and middle school titles mentioned with the three realistic fiction subgenre focuses (problem fiction, coming-of-age, travel fiction)

 

RECOMMENDED READS BOOKLISTS

  • two bookmarks, editable in PPT and PDF
  • all titles are realistic fiction
  • One bookmark is Grades 6-8, and the other is Grades 9-12.
  • All titles are recommended on Titlewave for Grades 6-8 and 9-12.
  • Both bookmarks include these subcategories: general realistic fiction, problem fiction, coming-of-age, travel fiction, survival
  • All titles received positive reviews from professional library journals. Many received starred reviews.

 

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