LET’S LOOK AT GENRE (FICTION)! ADVENTURE…MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE…FANTASY…HUMOROUS… HISTORICAL FICTION…REALISTIC FICTION…ROMANCE…SCIENCE FICTION…HORROR…SCARY STORIES
LET’S LOOK AT GENRE (FICTION)! ADVENTURE…MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE…FANTASY…HUMOROUS…HISTORICAL FICTION…REALISTIC FICTION…ROMANCE…SCIENCE FICTION…HORROR…SCARY.
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LET’S LOOK AT GENRE (FICTION)!
ADVENTURE…MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE…FANTASY…HUMOROUS…HISTORICAL FICTION…REALISTIC FICTION…ROMANCE…SCIENCE FICTION…HORROR…SCARY STORIES
GENRES
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ADVENTURE Action-packed Danger Exploration Stunts Daredevils Fear of death Quick thinking
Test of strength Survival Wilderness Outdoors Faraway lands Heart-pounding Risk-takers
ADVENTURE Hatchet
Bridge to Terabithia
The Lightning Thief
The Tale of Despereaux
MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE Solving cases Answering
question s Looking for clues Analyzing clues Police, detectives,
criminals Suspicious
characters
Questions, questions, questions
Spies
MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE
The Thief Lord
Harriet the Spy
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer (series)
FANTASY Extraordinary,
unbelievable characters and events
Mystical, supernatural characters and events
Magical worlds
Unicorns Creatures with
‘made-up’ names
Dragons May include
elements of adventure, romance, science fiction
FANTASY
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
James and the Giant Peach
The Tale of Despereaux
The Hunger Games series
HUMOROUS Makes you
laugh…in almost every scene
Troublemakers, class clowns, pranksters
Play jokes on people
Bratty Unbelievable Stories or poems
that rhyme Jokes and riddles People like you Comic strips
HUMOROUS
Big Nate series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Wayside School series
HISTORICAL FICTION Over 50 years
ago Famous
historical figures – presidents, explorers, war heroes, abolitionists, humanitarians, scientists
Around our world Usually involve
topics such as poverty, discrimination and civil rights, immigration, wars, kingdoms, slavery, other topics studied in history classes
HISTORICAL FICTION Fever 1793
Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Watsons go to Birmingham
REALISTIC FICTION Real people
Real problems
Real successess and failures
Middle-schoolers like you
Realistic worlds – United States, Canada, Europe
Realistic situations, hopes, dreams
School stories, sports stories, romance
REALISTIC FICTION Because of Winn Dixie
Judy Moody
Joey Pigza Loses Control
ROMANCE Can be realistic
fiction or fantasy Two characters
in love Relationships,
sometimes there is drama
Boyfriend-girlfriend
Husband and wife Prince and
Princess, King and Queen, Princess and Animal Creature (frog)
Everyday Worlds Kingdom Fantasy world Love
ROMANCE Beauty and the Beast
Book of a Thousand Days
Romiette and Julio
SCIENCE FICTION Science Computers,
Technology Imaginary
“scientific” language
Future World that does
not yet exist Outer space Robots Aliens Computer-
generated images
SCIENCE FICTION Mockingjay
Zathura
Jumanji
HORROR/SCARY STORIES Dark,menacing
scenes Graveyards,
haunted houses Scary Sometimes
occur on or around Halloween
Usually occur at night
Sometimes set in deserted areas
Vampires, goblins, witches, the dead, ghosts
Not for the ‘faint of heart’
HORROR/SCARY STORIES Goosebumps
Scary Stories to Read in the Dark
Zom-B series
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