Unit 5

What Can We Learn from Realistic Fiction?

Lesson 7

Reader's Notebook

In this lesson, you will use the SWBS chart and Character Chart you filled out in Assignments 5-2 and 5-7 to write a realistic story.

So far in this unit, you have been reading stories that are realistic fiction - invented stories that might have happened.


Review definitions for the elements of a story, if necessary:

  • character
  • plot
  • setting
  • conflict
  • theme

When beginning to develop a story, do the following:


Choose an audience: Will it be other Grade 6 students? Will it be your parents? Will it be younger members of your family?

Choose a purpose: Remember that as a writer, your purpose might be to entertain or involve the reader in a good story or it might be to share an important idea about people and how they behave.

If you are having difficulty, think back to the stories you have just read. The author chose the audience to be students of your age and the purpose was to show that it is possible to overcome challenges if you try your best.





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