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This theory says that children construct meaning from books based not just on text or the specific genre, but by relying on their own background knowledge. The reader’s personal experience, preferences, and feelings construct the true meaning of the text. Therefore meaning is found in the transaction between reader and text.
Importance: This theory is important [...]

About this Genre: This genre involves stories that reflect a wide range of societal structures, beliefs, ethics, attitudes, morals, abilities, ethnicities, family structures, and countries.
Importance: This genre helps challenge what children view as “normal” and shows them that there are more than one way of living life outside of a middle-class American suburbian existence. It [...]

About this Genre: Historical Fiction uses the facts and events of history to create a time and place, so the author can set a fictional character or a fictional story plot in the middle.
Importance: This genre shows children a way of living outside of modern technology. It gives them a view into how their ancestors [...]

About this Genre: Realistic Fiction is based in actuality and realism. It is about people, places and events that could actual exist and happy in our earthly realm.
Importance: This genre lets children easily live the events that happen and compare themselves to the human character presented. It gives an intense [...]

About this Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction takes stories beyond the realm of known earthly possibilities and scientific laws. It typically incorporates worlds and universes outside of our own, other species (elves, dragons, wizards, dwarfs, etc.), and humans with abnormal capabilities. Science Fiction differs from fantasy in that its stories are based upon advancement of [...]

About this Genre: Folklore is the retailing of myths, stories, legends, “old-wives-tales”, epics, cultural jokes, and traditional literature that has been passed down in oral or written form for hundreds to thousands of years.
Importance: It provides a foundation for future literary understanding. It also gives a background reference to cultural references in other stories (such [...]

About this Genre: Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs all tell the stories of all or portions of someone’s life. Biographies and Autobiographies can be non-fiction or fictionalized yet based on true events. Memoirs use portions of life events to bring out a theme or personality trait.
Importance: This genre lets children learn about the lives of significant [...]

<strong>About this Genre:</strong> It involves the teaching of facts and information. Story lines may be used as a teaching tool, but the emphasis is on learning the facts involved. Nonfiction books can be found about any subject imaginable!
<strong>Importance:</strong> This genre fulfills the child’s desire to know things, gets them more emotionally involved in learning, and [...]