Basic Terminology
Another Word for the Name of a Text
What is Title?
A Story about Aliens
What is Science Fiction?
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
What is Historical Fiction?
The life story written by someone else about a real person
What is Biography?
Person Who Writes a Text
What is Author?
A story where Abraham Lincoln is talking to his sister, Sarah
What is historical fiction?
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
What is Realistic Fiction?
True texts that provide facts.
What is Informational or Informational Texts?
Category of Texts Based on Fact, Not Fiction
What is Nonfiction?
Novels written in the style of comic strips
What is Graphic Novel?
Snow White by the Brothers' Grimm
What is Fairytale?
The story of a person's life written by that person
What is Autobiography?
A Made Up or Imaginary Story
What is Fiction?
Story about the traditional beliefs and stories of a community handed down orally
What is Folklore?
Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville
What is Science Fiction?
Famous document that lists the articles, or supreme laws, of the United States
What is the Constitution?
We categorize texts into these.
What is Genre?
An overexaggerated story
What is Tall Tale?
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
What is Fantasy?
Name of the famous diary written by a young Jewish girl during World War II while in hiding
What is The Diary of a Young Girl or The Diary of Anne Frank?