Genre Review

Funny stories that are intended to make the audience laugh.

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Humor

• Fantasy

Writing that often involves science, technology, time travel, or aliens. These stories are usually set in the future or another planet.

• Science Fiction

• Mystery

• Adventure

• Nonfiction

A story in which there is action, danger, and excitement.

• Fantasy

• Realistic fiction

• Nonfiction

• Adventure

A story that is told through pictures and dialogue, like a series of comic strips.

• Graphic Novels

• Adventure

• Humor

• Biography

A story using made-up characters and events, but is something that could actually happen in real life.

• Historical Fiction

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Biography

Stories that have been orally passed down over time. They include fables, folktales, myths, and legends.

• Mystery

• Graphic Novels

• Realistic fiction

• Traditional Literature

A story of a real person's life written by another person.

• Biography

• Adventure

• Mystery

• Traditional Literature

A made-up story that takes place in a particular time in the past, the setting or event in history may be real. The character may be based a real person's life.

• Nonfiction

• Adventure

• Historical fiction

• Informational

Texts that provide true informational on a lot of different topics.

• Informational

• Biography

• Traditional literature

• Historical fiction

Stories that include a detectives or crime solvers who solve a crime. The problem that is not solved until the end of the story.

• Informational

• Autobiography

• Mystery

• Realistic fiction