Types of Genres

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

A FANTASY (a story with imaginary things in it)

• is fiction
• is nonfiction
• could be either

You are reading a story about 3 talking pigs...Fiction or Non-Fiction?

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

You are reading about the life of Peyton Manning...Fiction or Non-Fiction?

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

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 with wizards and magic would be considered...

• realistic fiction
• autobiography
• fantasy
• historical fiction

A type of text that provides facts about many different topics. They are meant to “inform” the reader.

• Fantasy 
• Persuasive Writing 
• Biography 
• Informational Text