REALISTIC

STORIES
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Define the characteristics of realistic literature for

children

• Analyze the examples of realistic stories; and

• Explain the values of realistic stories.

What makes a story realistic
 True-to-life

Confronted with
challenges

In detail thoughts,
feelings, values
and personality
Characters
With dilemma

Setting Discover realistic

solution
Characteristics of
Realistic Stories
Plot Not always young
people

Themes
 Usually takes
place in the
present

Characters
Location, season
and time period

Setting
Characteristics of Vivid and
Realistic Stories detailed
Plot description

Themes Familiar places

in the story
 Engages readers
Characters

Setting Reflects the main

Characteristics of character’s problem
Realistic Stories
Plot
Reflects reality as
Themes well as problems and
issues

Must be believable
and easily
understood
 Characters

Family
Setting relationships
Characteristics of
Realistic Stories
Plot Peer acceptance

Themes
Coping with
problems

Diversity
Making connections to the Realistic Stories

 Text to Text

 Text to Self

 Text to World
It grants them an understanding of human
problems and relationship dynamics.
It allows them to develop an understanding of
themselves and their potentials.
It helps them enlarge their awareness of other
people’s perspectives
It reassures them that they are not the first to
have faced problems and issues.
It provides them with possible models for
coping with problems and issues of the human
condition.
Readers may come to feel that they are not
alone.
Readers may take a humorous, enjoyable look
at life.
Personal Values of Realistic Stories to Children

• Enjoyment

• Inspiration

• Understanding and Empathy

• Heritage

• Moral Reasoning

• Literary and Artistic Preferences