Collaborative+Language+Arts+Lessons

Here is a lesson activity that I used with my students to reinforce fantasy and realism. Lesson: You may notice some writing in the pink picture near the pasted picture of the fireman. It is a note explaining this groups thoughts on why it is an example of fantasy instead of realism. This group had a long discussion about this picture. One person in the group thought it was fantasy because the man's nose was way too large to be real stating, "No one can have a nose that big!" The rest thought it was realism because firemen are real and you can really have this job. Eventually she persuaded her group to see her side. What a great discussion! There is an example circled in the purple picture b/c these students couldn't explain why they put this example under realism.