Genre and Author's Purpose

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A real story where the author writes about him or herself.

• Realistic Fiction

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Fantasy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

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

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• History Fiction

• Informational

The TRUE story of a person's life in which the author is writing about someone else.

• Non-Fiction

• Mystery

• Biography

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Has facts, details, and can include images, glossary, graphs, and maps

• Informational

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Biography

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Non - Fiction is a fake story.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Match the following

• Hocus Pocus, The Hobbit, Maleficent

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Avengers

• Writing that is meant to be acted out.

• Drama

• Myth/Legends

• Stories that could have happened but didn't.

• Realistic Fiction

• Traditional stories based on the gods.