Reading Genre, Fact, Opinion

Stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people.

• Fantasy

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Informational

Stories that are made up and include ideas that could not happen in real life, often involving magical or supernatural elements, such as talking animals.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Stories that often take place in the future and can be amount imaginary new science and inventions such as spaceships, time machines, and robots. Also included is dystopian, bleak outlooks of the future.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Graphic Novels

A story that can actually happen and is true to life but also either takes place in a historical setting or attaches itself to an event in history.

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Informational

A story about someone's life, it can be written by the person themselves or another author.

• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

• Realistic Fiction

• Poetry

• Informational

A type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. This also includes books in verse.

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Autobiography/Biography/Memoir

• Poetry

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

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Both
• Neither

A story with suspects, 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
• could be either