1. Literary Genres
By: Katie Nelson

2. What is Literary Genre?
Literary Genre is a category of literary composition. Genres can be determined by literary technique, tone, content or length.
The distinctions between Genres and categories are flexible and easily defined.
They are often defined by subgroups.

3. Genre Genre is split into two categories: Fiction Non Fiction
Although when it comes to picture books and poetry, they are used widely across each genre.

4. Literary Genres Fiction Non Fiction Narrative story
Created from the authors imagination.
Could be based on a true story
Facts
Real People
Real events

5. Folklore Literature
Folklore is stories passed down from generation to generation in written or oral form.
Folktales
Cumulative
The Napping House
Talking Animals
Fairy Tales
Cinderella
Noodlehead
Tall Tales
Paul Bunyan
Pourquoi
Trickster
Fables
The Boy who Cried Wolf
Myths
Epic Tales
Hero tales/legends
Folk/work songs
Mother goose/nursery
Hickory Dickory Dock
Rhymes
Fractured fairy tales
Goldie Locks has Chicken Pox

6. Biography Biography is the story of someone’s life
written by someone else.
Individual
Collective
Fictionalized
Authentic
Contemporary
Interpretive

7. Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is when the setting is located in the past. Historical fiction focuses on the social conditions, and other major details of the time period that was chosen.
Fictionalized memoirs
Fictionalized family history
Fiction based on research

8. Science Fiction Science fiction is based on imagined future
scientific or technological. It sometimes portrays
space or time travel.
Mind control
Life in the future
Survival

9. Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction is stories that are true to life and events that could really take place.
Family Stories/Relationships
Friendship
Adventure/survival stories
Mysteries and thrillers
Animal stories
Sports stories
Humorous stories
Romance stories
Social-emotional issues
Book in a series

10. Informational Books
Informational Books are not text books, but they are considered trade books.
Activity Books
Concept Books
Journal/Interviews
Photo Essays
Pop-ups
Reference
Series
Social Histories
Survey Books
Focused, One Subject

11. Award winning books from each Genre
Folklore
Last Stop on Market Street, Matt De La Pena
2016 Newbery Honor Book
Biography
Balloons Over Broadway, Melissa Sweet
2012 Orbis Pictus Award
Historical fiction
I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.
2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
Science fiction
The Giver, Lois Lowry
1994 Newbery Medal
Realistic fiction
When Sophie Gets Angry, Molly Bang
2000 Caldecott Honor Book
Informational fiction
Voice of Freedom, Coale Boston Weatherford
2016 Caldecott Honor

12. References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre
Genre Sheet From Elementary Literature
Lit Collection