REVIEW REALISM AND FANTASYExplain realistic stories and fantasies are both "made-up" fiction. But a realistic story tells about something that could happen. A fantasy is a story about something that could not happen.
MODEL COMPARING GENRESModel comparing and contrasting a realistic story and a fantasy students have read.
MODEL The children in the realistic story were made up, but they did things that real children do. In the fantasy, there were animals that talked and magical events. These things could not really happen.
PRACTICE WITH A FANTASYRead a fantasy. Have students tell how the characters, events, or setting of the story are like or different from things in the real world.
Lukens, Rebecca J. A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature. Pearson Education, 2003, p. 20.
Rebecca J. Lukens,
A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature
"Fantasy, in the phrase of Coleridge, requires ‘the willing suspension of disbelief.' The writer of fantasy… creates another world for characters and readers, asking that readers believe this other world could and does exist within the framework of the book."
Research on Realism/Fantasy
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