Fiction
A story takes place in a world with talking animals, magical objects, or characters with supernatural abilities.
Fantasy
This type of nonfiction tells the life story of a real person and is written by someone other than that person.
Biography
A poem has no regular rhyme scheme or meter. Instead, the poet organizes the words into lines and stanzas to express an idea or feeling.
Free Verse
A story that takes place in a castle surrounded by a magical forest where a dragon keeps guard.
Fantasy
What is Miss Spakes dog's name? Clue word: Mascot
Saint
A story follows a character through dangerous journeys, exciting challenges, and high-stakes situations.
Adventure
A person writes about important events from their own life, describing what happened and how those experiences affected them, without a thematic message.
Autobiography
This type of poem is traditionally three lines long and often follows a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
Haiku
A story that takes place in a rogue spaceship, many light-years away.
Science Fiction
What was the best-selling candy last Halloween 2025, making over 500 million dollars in sales?
Reese Peanut Butter Cup
A character notices strange clues and must figure out who committed a crime or solve a puzzling question.
Mystery
A text explains how hurricanes form using facts, diagrams, photographs, and information from scientists. Its purpose is to teach the reader about the topic.
Informational text
This type of poem has five lines, usually has a rhythm that sounds playful or bouncy, and follows an AABBA rhyme scheme. It often tells a funny or silly story.
Limerick
A story that takes place in Ohio during the Great Depression and is mostly based on a true story.
Historical Fiction
What is the highest-grossing film of all time? (Without taking in consideration inflation)
The Avengers: Endgame
A group of friends enters an abandoned amusement park at night. They hear footsteps when no one is there, discover that the rides are turning on by themselves, and realize something may be following them.
Horror
An author writes about growing up on a farm, focusing on a few important childhood experiences that shaped who they became rather than describing every year of their life to build a thematic message for their audience.
Memoir
This type of poem is usually a long narrative that follows a hero through major adventures, battles, or challenges. The hero may have extraordinary abilities or receive help from gods or supernatural beings.
Epic Poem
The story takes place in a small, ordinary American suburb in the present day. There are houses, schools, grocery stores, neighborhoods, and other familiar places. Nothing about the setting is magical, futuristic, or historically unusual.
Realistic Fiction
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Maya moves to a new school and struggles to make friends while dealing with family problems and pressure from her classmates. Nothing magical or impossible happens, and the events could happen to a real teenager.
Realistic Fiction
A book examines life in Cleveland during the Great Depression using photographs, newspaper articles, government records, and information about real people and events from the period.
Historical Non-Fiction
This fourteen-line form of poetry traditionally follows a structured rhyme scheme and often explores complicated ideas about love, nature, time, or human experiences.
Sonnet
The story takes place in an old, isolated mansion surrounded by fog and dead trees. The building has crumbling stone walls, dark hallways, candlelit rooms, locked doors, and an overall feeling of mystery and decay.
Gothic
According to the UN's 2025 World Happiness Report, which country has the happiest inhabitants?
Finland