1. Fiction genres  Mystery  Science fiction  Historical fiction  Adventure  Fantasy  Realistic fiction  Fable  Myth  Folktale  Fairytale  Play / Drama

2. Reading Genre Assignment  Read each description.  Decide what genre the description falls under.  Compare answers with a classmate.

3. Reading Genres

4. Reading 1.Raise your hand if you like to read. 2.Why do you like to read? 3.What kinds of things do you like to read?

5. Types of Reading  What are the two main types of reading?

6. fiction What is fiction ?  Imaginary, or made up, writing

7. Fiction  Anything your imagination can come up with!

8. non-fiction What is non-fiction ?  Writing that is based on real and true information  Not made up

9. fiction Forms of fiction  Poems  Short Stories  Novels  Plays (drama)

10. nonfiction Forms of nonfiction  Letters  Documents  Biographies  Autobiographies

11. Fiction  Fiction is divided in genres.  Genre – a category of literature  How many genres of literature are there?

12. Fiction genres  Mystery  Science fiction  Historical fiction  Adventure  Fantasy  Realistic fiction  Fable  Myth  Folktale  Fairytale  Play / Drama

13. Mystery  A story involving:  Strangeness  Solving a puzzling event or situation  Something unknown  Solving a crime  Centered around a person who investigates wrongdoing  Centered around a person, or people, employed to obtain secret information

14. Mystery  Example books:

15. Science Fiction  Stories that often tell about science and technology of the future  Settings:  In the future  In space  On a different world  In a different universe or dimension

16. Science Fiction  Example books:

17. Historical Fiction  A story set in a historical period  Characters talk, dress, and act like people of that time period  Story involves real people and actual events that happened in history

18. Historical Fiction

19. Adventure  Characters who behave like real people and animals  Settings are real, or could be real  Events could happen in real life  Story has action or suspense, or both  An adventurer – a fictional character who lives by their wits and their skills

20. Adventure

21. Fantasy  People, animals, or objects do things they cannot do in real life  Story takes place in a make-believe setting that does not exist in the real world  Story has creatures in it that are not found in real life.  Talking animals  Magical powers

22. Fantasy

23. Realistic Fiction  Stories that take place in modern times  Characters are involved in events that could really happen

24. Realistic Fiction

25. Fable  Very short  Usually have two or three characters  Characters may be animals or things that act like people  Teach a lesson or a moral

26. Fable

27. Myth  A story that offers an explanation of how something in nature looks or happens  A story that explains why people act as they do  Characters may be human or gods or goddesses

28. Myths  The Twelve Labors of Hercules  Jason and the Argonauts  Demeter and Persephone  The Trojan War

29. Folktale  A story that has been told and retold over generations  Different countries have similar folktales, but have cultural differences  Characters can be animals or objects that can speak  Story often teaches a moral or a lesson  Good or smart wins over evil or not so smart  Story is told using pronouns

30. Folktale

31. Fairy Tale  Begins with a phrase like “once upon a time…”  Setting is a faraway or imaginary land  Characters are often royal – kings, queens, princes, princesses  Things happen or appear in sets of three  The granting of wishes  The use of magical powers  A happy ending where good wins over evil

32. Fairy Tale

33. Play / Drama  Meant to be performed / acted out  Has a list of names and describes the characters  Includes descriptions of scenes or settings  Includes dialogue / lines that characters speak to one another  Includes stage directions giving more details about what is happening on the stage or what the actors are to do

34. Play / Drama  William Shakespeare  Hamlet  A Midsummer’s Knight Dream  Romeo and Juliet  King Lear  Othello  Taming of the Shrew  Macbeth

35. Reading Genre Assignment  Read each description.  Decide what genre the description falls under.  Compare answers with a classmate.