Review of Reading Genres

Mrs. Johnson called her robot-maid into the room. "Charlotte," she said, "I need to fabricate dinner for ten. I'd also like a holographic performance of the symphony. Charlotte beeped her agreement and whirred away.

• Realistic Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

A boy growing up in a humble shack in a poor mountain town realizes as he grows older that the silver bracelets he has always worn seem to be growing with him. They have never been tight, but they have never been loose. Clearly, they are enchanted. He wonders whether they have magical powers.

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

Marta stomped out to the pasture. She was annoyed that she had been sent to call in the herd of unicorns and that she was forbidden from using magic to do so.

• Science Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Fantasy

Being a chimney sweep was a difficult life. Jimmy knew how dangerous it was but

with three younger siblings and his father away at sea, he needed every shilling

he could find. Imagine his surprise when was called to work at Buckingham Palace, even Queen

Victoria had chimneys to be swept!

• Fantasy

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

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Marcus approached the odd looking craft. He was startled when a creature emerged from it. The grey being appeared to be somewhat humanoid, but its head was bigger than that of a typical human, and its hands had just three long fingers.

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

Meg is the narrator of this novel about becoming popular in high school and all the ways she was successful in getting attention.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

It wasn't her first time travel adventure, but Donna was still nervous. Every time she strapped in the machine and went back to the 1950s, she worried she'd be trapped there. Certainly, her study of the past was valuable to other scholars, but the notion of being forever locked in a time without the technologies she counted on was terrifying.

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What genre of fiction includes magic, fantastic beings, and often takes place in a faraway time?

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Mystery

• Realistic Fiction

If you read a modern-day novel that seems so believable that you just "KNOW" that it is a true story it is probably

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The word "genre" means...

• music

• a kind or type

• art

• a genius

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CCSS.RL.5.5

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