Reading Genres

If Helen Keller wrote about her life, it would be a/an ...

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Realistic Fiction

• Adventure

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

A story with suspects, detectives, clues, and usually a crime that needs to be solved.

• Mystery
• Realistic Fiction
• Adventure
• Historical Fiction

This genre has characters, settings, and events that could happen in real life.

• Fantasy
• Tall Tale
• Fiction
• Realistic Fiction

An INFORMATIONAL text

• is fiction
• is nonfiction
• has things that cannot happen in real life

• has been passed on by word-of-mouth

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

A book about a robot that takes over the world in the year 3000 would be considered...

• Fantasy
• realistic fiction
• biography
• science fiction

A book things that cannot happen in real life, such as wizards and magic would be considered...

• realistic fiction
• autobiography
• fantasy
• historical fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

The four types of traditional literature we studied include:

• mystery, biography and autobiography

• fairytales, fables, myths, and legends
• adventure, poetry, fantasy and graphic novels

• realistic fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

A type of writing written to encourage feeling and create a thoughtful response. This type of writing often uses rhyme and rhythm to convey a message.

• Traditional Literature 
• Fantasy
• Poetry
• Mystery

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

If another person wrote about Tiger Woods, it would be a/an ...

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Both
• Neither

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

A story set in a real place in the past (like the Great Depression or World War II) with made up, but believable characters.

• Realistic Fiction
• Fantasy
• Biography
• Historical Fiction