3rd Grade Library

Fiction Genre

100

This genre has talking animals

Fantasy

200

This genre has the characters struggle against outside forces like war and natural disasters

Adventure

300

This genre has aliens and advanced machinery

Science Fiction

400

This genre has stories that took place in the past

Historical Fiction

500

This genre has characters in danger from a villain or threat

Horror

Non-Fiction Categories

100

This is where you will find machinery and how things work

Technology

200

This category is where you find Dinosaurs

500  Science

300

This category is where you will find poems and joke books

Literature 800

400

This category is where you will find book about people and places

History & Geography 900

500

This category is where you will find Christmas books

Social Sciences 300

PIE

100

When you try to convince someone to do or believe something

Persuade

200

When you learn something or now know something from reading

Inform

300

When the purpose is just for fun 

Entertainment

400

What is the purpose of this passage?

Do you want to earn money? Do you like dogs? Do you like to exercise? Then become a dog walker! Have fun walking and playing with dogs while earning money. You can sign up for a schedule to get your dog group together and you will be paid for your work. Enjoy playing while you earn money.

Persuasive

500

What is the purpose of this passage?

John and Ella saw it at the same time. It was tall, steep and glowed brightly in the sun. The stairs went up forever and you knew you would fly off the slide. They looked at each other. The race was on. Who ever was the last down that giant slide was the rotten egg.

Entertainment

Non-Fiction Text Features

100

  This shows us what something looks like

Picture         Illustration

200

This shows where things are located 

Maps

300

This shows us which words are important

Bold or Color Words

400

This is at the end of the book and can show you where a subject in the book is located

Index

500

This goes with a picture and explains what the picture is showing

Caption

Text Structures

100

This text structure is used to explain what something is like or what it looks like 

Description

200

This type of text structure will take two things and explain how they are alike or different

Compare and Contrast

300

This type of text structure will show how one thing will affect another

Cause and Consequences

400

This text structure shows what happened first and then what happened next

Sequence

500

This text structure will show a difficult situation and a way to solve it

Problem and Solution