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GENRE OF CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE FICTION Sub genre:
 Fantasy

 Traditional Rhymes  Low

 Playground rhymes Types of  Science Fiction Fantasy
 Narrative poems (poems telling a POETRY Major genre:
story)
Fantasy Stories
 High
 Folk songs  Historical Fiction
 Fiction fantasy
 Nonfiction  Animals
 Multicultural  Toys  Realistic Fiction
Purposes:
TRADITIONAL
LITERATURE literature  Unreal worlds
Features of
Tell a culture’s history  Poetry  Ghost stories Realistic Fiction
Convey a culture’s value  Stories passed  Traditional  Time warps
down through literature  Magic powers  Credible characters and
generations
Entertainment settings
 Originally told by
 Plot reflections real-life
word-of-mouth problems that can be
NON-FICTION understood by children
 Theme relates to
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Stories with an obvious moral
Talking animals
FABLES GENRE contemporary social issues
 Engaging writing style with
 Actually happened in real
A group of books with life and have scientific
realistic dialogue
 Explain ‘HOW’ or ‘WHY’ of some phenomenon.  Not didactic or
 MYTHS common attributes phenomenon
condescending
Tells the original of phenomenon.  Informational books
 Supernatural characters. A category or (expository texts)
 People with special powers.  Literacy notification
classification (narrative nonfiction) Types of
Legends Realistic Fiction
 Stories of culture’s heroes or leaders
LEGENDS,
Tall tales TALL TALES, MOTHER GOOSE MULTICULTURAL
 Stories of people  Survival and adventure
 Humorous, hyperbole REALISTIC LITERATURE  Mystery
Realistic tales  Poems and nursery rhymes  Humor
 Sometimes sometimes based in facts TALES  Ex:  Animals
- Jack & Jill  Literature that features people who are  Sports
- Little Boy Blue diverse in many ways  Friendship
FOLKTALES - Old Mother Hubbard  Race  Family
 Stories about people, animals or
 Ethnicity  Growing-Up
supernatural
 Nationality  Disability
Fairy tales Types of Multicultural Literature:
 Gender  Foster homes
 Folktales with magical or supernatural  Global Literature
 Social class  Loss
elements  International Literature
 Translated Literature  Exceptionality
 Religion
TRICKET TALES: A clever main character who
TRICKSTER  Sexual orientation
 Language
outsmarts others. TALES & 
NOODLEHEAD: Funny stories about silly main NOODLEHEAD
character
STORIES