Genre Practice

based on something real, but cannot be proven true. The people telling it believe it happened.

• Legend

• Poetry

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

True facts. Includes diagrams, charts, and photographs

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Informational

• Historical Fiction

Short story that teaches a lesson; often includes talking animals

• Fairy Tale

• Science Fiction

• Biography

• Fable

Story about a real person's life told by another person

• Autobiography

• Informational

• Historical Fiction

• Biography

Fictional characters set in present; didn't happen but could really happen

• Fairy Tale

• Science Fiction

• Mystery

• Realistic Fiction

Verse Written to create thought and emotion; often has rhyme and rhythm

• Poetry

• Mystery

• Fantasy

• Biography

story about a a person's life told by the person themselves

• Biography

• Historical Fiction

• Autobiography

• Realistic Fiction

Fictional characters set in the future; includes science and technology

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

Explains how something came to be; gods and goddesses

• Fantasy

• Myth

• Fable

• Legend

Story set in the past; setting is real, but characters are made up

• Autobiography

• Mystery

• Realistic Fiction

• Historical Fiction