Genre Characteristics

Monsters, magic, and animals talking

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

• Biography

Aliens, Space Craft, technology, settings in the future

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Biography

• Science Fiction

A story with suspects, clue, and usually a crime that needs to be solved

• Mystery

• Adventure

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

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

• Non-Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Mystery

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

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• History Fiction

• Informational

Fiction is a made up story.

• True

• False

Non-fiction is a made up story.

• True

• False

Which genre includes magic?

• Fantasy

• Historical Fiction

• Biography/
  Autobiography

• Informational

Science Fiction does not include:

• A setting in the future

• Technology

• Fantasy

• Text Features

Which of the following is considered Fiction?

• Informational

• Fantasy

• Biography/
  Autobiography