Reading Strategies
Genre Topics
Literature Within Subjects
Award Winning Books
Reading Genres
100
This strategy is used before you read a book and you are trying to guess what will happen in the story.
What is predicting?
100
This genre includes poetry slams, hip-hop, gangsta rap, and specific audience-based poems.
What is poetry?
100
The following titles of picture books would be found in this subject:
The Missions of Addition
The Greedy Triangle
The Best of Times
Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu
Pythagoras and the Ratios
What is math?
100
This award is given annually by the Association for Library Services to Children to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. Chris Van Allsburg won the award for this book in 1982.
What is the Caldecott Medal?
100
This genre is about suspenseful problems that are solved.
What is mystery?
200
This strategy is when a reader wraps up what happened in the story.
What is summarize?
200
This genre includes stories about animals, dark and Gothic plots, humorous and lighthearted, myth-based, supernatural, traditional or Mabinogion.
What is fantasy?
200
The following books could be read to learn about this subject:
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Hello, Harvest Moon
Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
Fossils Tell of Long Ago
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
What is science?
200
This is awarded annually by the American Library Association, acknowledging the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. Louis Sachar won the award in 1999 for this book.
What is the Newberry Medal?
200
This genre is based on true facts and can be about any subject.
What is nonfiction?
300
This strategy is when a reader closes their eyes and pictures the story, the setting, characters, action, and so on.
What is visualize?
300
This genre is closely related to fantasy. Different types of this genre include: space travel, mad scientist, cyberpunk, utopias, and dystopias.
What is science fiction?
300
The following books have this subject matter in common:
The Secret Father's Day Present
Fourth of July Mice!
The Hallo-weiner
Veteran's Day: Remembering Our War Heroes
The Night Before Christmas
What are holidays?
300
This award is presented annually to an African American author and an African American illustrator for outstanding contributions published during the previous year. Christopher Paul Curtis won the author award for this book in 2000.
What is the Coretta Scott King Award?
300
This genre is when a story is written about another person's life by another person.
What is biography?
400
This strategy is when a reader makes an educated guess about a part of the story.
What is infer or interpret?
400
This genre has a wide range of topics which include: romantic quests, friendship, love, wish-fulfilling, serious to modern problems, tragedies, family relationships, living in a multicultural world, the physical body, and magical realism.
What is contemporary realistic fiction?
400
The following books would fit under this subject matter:
Immigrant Children
Too Many Tamales
The Irish Cinderlad
ABC: A Family Alphabet Book
Seeing Things My Way
What is multicultural literature?
400
This award is given to honor Latino writers and illustrators whose work portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for youth. Susan Guevara won the first ever award for this book in 1996.
What is the Pura Belpre Award?
400
This genre explains something and characters may be gods or superhumans.
What is myth?
500
This is a strategy that helps readers develop a deeper understanding and perhaps is more important than answering questions.
What is ask questions?
500
Topics under this genre are as followed: war, famous people or places, time periods, and events from the past.
What is historical fiction?
500
The following books could support this subject:
Apples to Oregon
Gold Fever
A Tale of the Great Depression
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Heroes of the Civil Rights
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
What is social studies/history?
500
This annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a commendable book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Graham Salisbury won the award for this book in 1995.
What is the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction?
500
This genre is written to be acted out and has an audience.
What is drama?