Fiction Genre

What does genre mean?

• A type, or kind, of book

• Something to read

• The characters in a book

• A French word

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

How does knowing a book's genre make reading easier?

• Books are shorter

• You can skip parts of the book

• You can predict what might happen in the book

• You know how it ends

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What fiction genre has impossible elements such as talking animals or magical powers?

• Realistic Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Fantasy

• Mystery

When there is magic, witches, royalty and/or talking animals the story must be:

• Fairytale

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Myth

What is Fiction?

• A made up or imagined story

• Stories about real life

• A book written by a real person about their life.

• Stories about events that happened in the past.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

This type of story uses talking animals to teach a lesson

• Drama

• Fable

• Fairytale

• Legend

These stories were passed down by word of mouth before they were written.

• Fiction

• Legend

• Myth

• Folktale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Even though this fiction story is based on real history, they exaggerate the life of a real person.

• Fairytale

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

These fiction tales were written to explain the unknown before science. They include gods and goddess.

• Myth

• Legends

• Fable

• Fairytale