What is Historical Fiction?
Historical Fiction has a setting and scene set in the past. The settings and characters are historically accurate. The work may include real characters and places, but the main characters and stories are fictionalized.
How can we use it in the classroom?
In the classroom, Historical Fiction can be used in several ways. It can be used to bring time periods to life, enrich social studies lessons, allow students to examine past day to day life, and to integrate curriculum. Texts with characters the same age as the students allow them to identify with the characters and the time period involved. It can pique the students’ interest of a particular time period and bring history to life in the classroom. Students can also come to understand the problems faced by children during the time period the text relates to. When dealing with younger children picture books are the best type of historical fiction to use.
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