Historical Fiction

What is Historical Fiction?

Historical fiction consists of books in which the setting and scene is set in the past,may have some real people or places, but the main characters and story are fictional. Many children gain knowledge about the people,values beliefs, hardships and physical surroundings commo to various periods. Also through historical fiction children can discover that in all times, people have depended on one another and that they have had similar needs.

How can you use Historical Fiction in classroom?

You can have the students do a timeline of the book they have read for the week or you can have each group read a book and they come up with their own timeline of what happened in their own books. I believe every child should like historical fiction because it's important information about the past,present and future. I know I will be using historical fiction in my classroom.