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Unit Assessment:
Complete 4 Component: Realistic Fiction
Student Name:
LitLife 2008.
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LitLife 2008.
Suggested Mini-Lessons
Read aloud Realistic Fiction pieces.
Identify features of Realistic fiction and character development,
as well as setting and dialogue.
Compare and contrast Realistic Fiction in different forms (picture
books, magazines, chapter books)
Observe and discuss where and how authors get their ideas for
generating ideas in writers notebooks. ie.(observations,
problem/issues in society, family rituals and traditions,
fictionalized memories, created characters, traumatic memories,
newspaper and news stories, etc.)
Students will identify and record Realistic Fiction from their own
independent books in their writers journal.
Have students share with their reading partners.
Model how to go from writers journal to drafting their own
Realistic Fiction.
Demonstrate and model several examples of character
development. ie. T-chart, possibly of a friend.
Identify to students how to show, dont tell. (ie. body language,
facial expression).
Chart possible Egg Words (ie. Afraid, excited, upset, happy, and
add details to these general words together.)
Children can then go back into their independent writing and
identify Egg Words to expand on.
Model for students how to develop character through scene. ( ie.
Show character change over time, unpack big action into a series
of smaller actions, follow dialogue with action, similes to show
feelings, using adjectives sparingly and in a purposeful way.)
Students now try to create their own scene in their journals
which demonstrates character development and dialogue.
Discuss with students a possible reflection and model for
students what a well done reflection looks like.
Model how to set personal goals for students and then have tem
set personal goals for what to possibly work on as they move
forward.
Celebrate with the students their accomplishments in writing.
Realistic Fiction.
LitLife 2008.
LitLife 2008.