Genre Specific Characteristics

Informational texts have facts and details. They can also include... (check all that apply)

• images with captions

• glossary

• maps

• graphs

• index

Monsters, magic, and animals talking

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

• Biography

Aliens, Space Craft, technology, settings in the future

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Biography

• Science Fiction

A story with suspects, clue, and usually a crime that needs to be solved

• Mystery

• Adventure

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

A story set in a real place in the past (like World War II) with made up, but believable characters.

• Non-Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Mystery

This genre has characters, settings, and events that could happen in real life.

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• History Fiction

• Informational

"The Book Thief...tells us about Liesel, a girl growing up in Germany during World War II. She steals books, learns to read, and finds comfort in words. She and Max, the Jew her family protects, are the only main characters that survive the war." What genre is it?

A real story where the author writes about him or herself.

• Realistic Fiction

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Fantasy

The TRUE story of a person's life in which the author is writing about someone else.

• Non-Fiction

• Mystery

• Biography

• Fiction

Has facts, details, and can include images, glossary, graphs, and maps

• Informational

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Biography