📚 ELA Vocabulary: Genre

A distinctive type or category of literary composition.

• theme
• style
• genre
• narrative

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Represents reality, portrays everyday experiences as they are in real life.

• Realism

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Memoir

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Nonfiction text that explains something.

• Persuasive text
• Expository text
• Narrative text
• Descriptive text

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

An invented story that could happen.

• historical fiction

• fantasy

• biographical text

• realistic fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An imaginative fictional text that contains elements that could not exist in the real world.

• Historical Fiction
• Realistic Fiction
• Fantasy

• Biography

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Books that give information about someone’s life.

• Autobiographies
• Fiction novels
• historical fiction

• Biographies

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An invented story that contains elements such as characters, a problem or conflict, a setting, a plot, and a resolution.

• fiction

• nonfiction

• memoir

• procedural text

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A text designed to teach or show how to do something.

• narrative nonfiction

• fantasy

• expository text

• procedural text

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

A factual text with the primary purpose of communicating information.

• realism

• historical fiction

• nonfiction

• fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Realistic fiction that is set in the past.

• Mystery fiction
• Science fiction
• Fantasy fiction
• Historical fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D