Unit 5

What Can We Learn from Realistic Fiction?

Reader's Notebook

Reflect on Your Reading

Answer the questions for your chosen novel on the Assignment 5-5 worksheet below.


A writer’s voice or sound includes his or her sentence structure, word choice, punctuation, and speech patterns. If you ever said something like “If Shane was here now, he’d say, ‘I gots to get me some grits!’, you were referring to Shane’s “voice”.

Consider the author's voice after you have finished reading the novel. Add ten new words you encountered in the first half of the book to the worksheet below. Add ten new words you encountered in the second half of the book to the worksheet below. For example add “breadwinner” if you are reading The Breadwinner or “maniac” if you are reading Maniac Macgee. Add “phantom” if you are reading Phantom Tollbooth or “traverse” if you are reading Anne of Green Gables.

  • Why do you think the author chose to write the book that you chose to read?
  • What is one problem the main character in your novel faced?
  • What is the setting (time and place) of the story? Is this time and place important to the author’s message?
  • What have you learned so far about realistic fiction stories?





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