Genres

=Goal: Understand that literature can be divided in different Genres.=

Includes chapter books and picture books.
A fantasy type up story that mixes technology and science. If you take the science part out there would be no story. Stories with robots, aliens, and often set in the future. ||  || //**Historical Fiction:**// A fictional story that mixes historical facts with realistic characters. Often the characters are made up, but realistic. The characters, language, and settig are from a certain time period in history. ||  || //**Ghosts / Supernatural Stories**// //They have a mysterious feel ,// //but the main element// //is supernatural: ghosts, and or m////onsters// **//.//** ||
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 * ==Fantasy==
 * out of this world
 * impossible to happen
 * very strange characters
 * talking animals
 * magical or magic
 * could not happen in real life ||  || ==Realistic Fiction==
 * seems like it is real
 * it could happen
 * characters are made up but they are realistic
 * school, family, friends, problems, growing up
 * non talking animal stories,
 * romance, humor and sports stories ||  || ==Mystery==
 * has suspense, exciting plot
 * with clues to be solved
 * detective stories ||
 * **Science Fiction:**
 * **Science Fiction:**

-Nonfiction: Other types - Poetry & Folktales
Dewey Decimal Number ||  || Story about a real person's life written by another person, Hint: 92 An Autobiography is written by the person themselves about their life so far. || Words in verse, sometimes rhyming. Hint: 811
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 * Hint:

Hint:398 || We are studying forms of writing. generation to generation. They explain the natural and spiritual world.
 * Folktales**: are passed down from

We are studying cultures,

Folktales Fairytales Myths and legends. Hint:398 || Other Genre Resources:'
 * Reading Posters featured from []


 * Mrs. H Power Point Genre Song


 * Mrs. H's Power Point comparing Realistic Fiction with Historical Fiction

Folktale: Rabbit and The Tar Baby, if time the Interuppting Chicken Matiching game with genres, song with genres SSS:
 * Topic**: Introduce genres

LA 2215 respond to poetry, biographies, folktales and legends Cultural Diversity: American South LA 413 Respond to literature and creative expressions of ideas in various formats and genres. Differentiated: storytelling,, working in teams with realia

CC2RL2 Recount stories including fables and folk tales from diverse cultures. CC2RL4 Descrive the overall structure of a story, inclucing describing how the beginning introduces and the ending concludes.