Develop characters and a setting for a realistic fiction story, create puppets and design a poster to represent them, complete a story map and write a draft using dialogue and sequence words, learn the review and edit process before writing a realistic fiction story, and turning it into a puppet show to present to the class!
Your 3rd grade students will develop their fiction writing skills in this ELA project-based learning unit, building an understanding of realistic fiction with examples from books. They will create puppets and design posters to represent the characters and settings they create for their own stories. They will master the revising and editing process before creating puppet shows using their realistic fiction stories.