Genres ( JON-RA )

What does genre mean? Genre: a category of artistic composition So, a genre is just the category a book falls into!! How many genres are there? Let’s find out about some now!

Traditional Literature BIOGRAPHY FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION MYSTERY FOLK TALE LEGEND HISTORICAL FICTION REALISTIC FICTION FABLE POETRY TALL TALE Informational Autobiography

NONFICTION FACTUAL RESEARCH BASED CAN PROVE IT!

BIOGRAPHY The story of a person’s life, living or not living. Shows how that person affected other people –Call Number: 921 –Alphabetical by the person’s last name.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY The story of a person’s life, living or not living BUT it is written by that person. The Life and Times Of Martha Washington Written by: Martha Washington

POETRY Words build sensory images Verses: Plays with sounds of words and rhythms May or may not rhyme Can be on any subject –Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky –Call Number: 811

FICTION MADE UP NOT A TRUE STORY IMAGINARY SOMETIMES BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Traditional Literature Folk Tales Fairy Tales Legends Tall Tales Fables

FOLKTALE & FAIRY TALES Timeless and placeless tale Evil and good people or animals Begins “Once upon a time” and ends “happily ever after” Often helped by magical creatures –Cinderella –Three Little Pigs –Sleeping Beauty –Hansel and Gretel –Gingerbread Man –Ugly Duckling

LEGEND Characters have special traits Based on a fictional or real figure whose story has been exaggerated Characters perform super human deeds –Robin Hood –King Arthur

TALL TALES Heroes are “larger than life”: Some are made up, some based on real people Characters have exaggerated qualities. They are bigger, stronger, faster than the average person even though they seem average Solves problems in humorous way that is exaggerated beyond belief –Paul Bunyan –Pecos Bill

FABLE Short stories Teach a valuable lesson Most characters are animals or inanimate objects with human feelings –Aesop Fables

FANTASY Events could not happen according to science today (animals talking) Characters may have special powers like magic, ability to travel where others can’t, traveling through time –Charlotte’s Web –Dragon books –Magic Tree House –Percy Jackson series (Riordan) –Gregor series (Collins)

SCIENCE FICTION Story with plot based on science If science makes advances, the story could possibly happen –Among the… (series by Haddix) –Bailey School Kids (Dadey)

HISTORICAL FICTION Story is based in earlier era or time period May be entirely fiction or mixed with historical facts Characters are entirely fiction or based on a real person in history –Out of the Dust (Hesse) –Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)

REALISTIC FICTION Fictional characters who behave in realistic ways. Seems like it could really happen Books by: –Andrew Clements –Beverly Cleary

MYSTERY Uncovering clues and piecing them together There is a definite problem that is solved by the end of the story.