Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

We are learning to understand the role of setting in realistic fiction.

VOCABULARY

Setting: The place where something happens

Realistic: Believable or accurate

Historical: Belonging in the past

Fantasy: Made up or make believe

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

Read some realistic fiction together and discuss the setting.  Why is the setting important in this type of text? How would the story change if the settig was somewhere completely different?