In my house, modern fantasy is brought in all the time. My children have read The Magic Tree House
series, 39 Clues, The Tales of Despereaux, and Charlotte’s Web to name a
few. The only thing is I never knew that
modern fantasy was such a broad spectrum of literature. It is categorized into two categories: low
fantasy and high fantasy. Low fantasy in
considered to take place in the real world but magical elements make them
possible and high fantasy takes the information and experience from real world
and projects them into another world (Johnson, 2012).
Writing modern fantasy allows the author to portray ideas to
children that they might not understand otherwise. This can be beneficial to teach subjects that
are important but need a clearer understanding.
In my classroom, I will use modern fantasy as a read
aloud. During the read aloud I would
stop to see what the students interpret from the authors writing. There is always a real world connection that
we want children to get.
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