Reading Genre - A Teacher's Guide & Materials for Genre Study

Over 200 pages of teacher background pages, planning tools, and graphic organizers, anchor charts printables for teaching reading genre study for an entire school year. Fiction, poetry, drama, expository, persuasive, and procedural materials included so you can cover all the reading genres! Download the preview to get a peek at all of the included materials!

This resource includes...

• A Teacher’s Guide to Genre-Based Instruction:
• An introduction to genre-based instruction
• How to use your existing materials to teach by genre
• Different components of your reading program: whole group, small group, and independent work
• Planning tools: sample lesson plan, lesson plan formats
• Assessing by genre: background information and sample planning guides and questioning

Tools for Teaching Fiction

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching fiction
• Important vocabulary & definitions
• Structural elements guide
• Anchor chart: Freytag's pyramid
• Noticing the pattern of fictions structure anchor chart
• Summarizing with a pocket chart
• Sequencing events guide
• Order of events picture activity
• Sequencing on Freytag's pyramid idea
• Character study background
• Character study graphic organizer
• Character study anchor chart
• Making inferences about characters chart
• Gathering character traits chart activity
• Character conflicts flipbook
• Character change accordion book
• Lesson ideas for theme
• Theme anchor chart
• Point of view background
• Point of view anchor chart
• Subgenres anchor chart (legend, fable, tall tale, fairy tale: folktales)
• Different types of fiction anchor chart
• Fiction study table
• Printable fiction chart
• Station ideas for fiction
• Question ring
• Author study printable chart
• Author study graphic organizer
• Character circle map
• Scaffolded summary
• Character inferences organizer
• Character traits organizer
• Fiction bookmark printable

Tools for Teaching Poetry

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching poetry
• Important vocabulary of the poetry
• Poetry lesson ideas
• Poetic structure POETS method for comprehension
• Poetic structures anchor chart
• Poetry sequence of instruction for a week: lesson plans
• Figurative language background
• Sensory language anchor chart
• Figurative language anchor chart
• Figurative language flipbook
• Making inferences lesson ideas
• Making inferences topic lesson and anchor chart
• Station ideas for poetry
• Figurative language chart
• Poetic devices matching activity
• Poetry scavenger hunt
• Poetry question ring
• Poetry bookmark printable

Tools for Teaching Drama

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching drama
• Important vocabulary of the genre
• Introducing dramatic structures anchor chart
• Structures & strategies anchor chart
• Sample drama
• Reading with fluency anchor chart and activity
• Making connection to fiction activity
• Venn diagram: comparing fiction & drama
• Making inferences about characters anchor chart
• Drama station ideas
• Making inferences about characters graphic organizer
• Drama question ring
• Drama bookmark printable

Tools for Teaching Biography/Literary Nonfiction

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching biography
• Important vocabulary of the genre
• Important elements of biography anchor chart
• Matrix for reading biographies
• Important elements organizer
• Stations ideas for biography
• Printable biography matrix
• Biography graphic organizer
• Biography question ring
• Biography bookmarks
  

Tools for Teaching Expository

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching biography
• Important vocabulary of the genre
• Introducing organization of articles anchor chart
• Using text features anchor chart
• Text structure anchor chart
• Cause and effect anchor chart
• Main ideas for summary ideas
• Identifying the topic using text features activities
• Main idea graphic organizers
• Summarize using main ideas anchor chart
• Station ideas for expository
• Fact finder graphic organizer
• Main idea sticky note activity
• Build an article activity
• Expository question ring
• Expository bookmarks printable

Tools for Teaching Procedural Text

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching procedural
• Important vocabulary of the genre
• Lesson idea: collecting verbs & graphic organizer
• Station ideas for procedural text
• Collecting transition words graphic organizer
• Procedural question ring
• Procedural bookmark printable

Tools for Teaching Persuasive Text

• An introduction to the genre
• Great titles for teaching persuasive
• Important vocabulary of the genre
• Persuasive anchor chart
• Differentiating fact vs. opinion anchor chart
• Finding tone words for viewpoint anchor chart
• Stations ideas for persuasive text
• Author's message flipbook
• Reverse mapping persuasive graphic organizer
• Gather tone words graphic organizer
• Thinking critically cube
• Facts/Opinions flipbook
• Persuasive question ring
• Persuasive bookmark printable

Making connections across genres

• Printable poster/question chart
• Genre bookmark
• Genre sort: elements & structures
• Reading across genre anchor charts
• Comparing two texts venn diagram
• Charting what you read printable

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.

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