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Imagination: Real or Make Believe
Can cartoon bears talk? Can fish sing? Engage your students by teaching the difference between real and make believe.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to decide if something is real or make believe and speak clearly about the topic.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
- Tell students they will be learning about things that are real and make believe. Explain that real things exist and we can see, hear, feel, taste, or touch them, while make believe is when something cannot happen in real life because it doesn't actually exist.
- Tell students to listen attentively to Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
- Play the story.
- Ask the class if they think everything in the story could actually happen.
Beginning
- Provide definitions or brief explanation of "real" and "make believe" in students home language (L1).
Intermediate
- Share examples of things that are real and make believe to review and familiarize students with the concept (e.g. show pictures of unicorns vs. horses).