Teaching genre

Genre anchor chart and free printables!

Teaching different types of genres help students become lifelong readers. Here are my favorite tips for teaching genre in the library or classroom.

I love encouraging my students to explore a variety of genres, but sometimes that means I need to explicitly teach them about the genres first! These free genre posters are the perfect way to do just that!

Engaging ideas for teaching literary genres with literature units in middle and high school ELA. Explore some activities you can try today!

I have been so busy and haven't shared anything in a long time. Hopefully very soon I can post more often! Today, I thought I would share some genre things that I have going in my room. I have a genre wall by my classroom library. Every time I read a book in class or we use a text during a mini-lesson, we add a picture of the book cover to our genre wall. The kids discuss together what genre each book is and where we should add it to the wall. This always starts some great discussions! These…

Hosting a Book Bakery in our classroom was the perfect way to introduce my students to reading genres! In first grade, each student is still discovering what

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I try to teach direct lessons on book genres at the start of the year because it's just such a basic part of kids knowing about books and discovering what they like to read. My library is organized by

This resource includes a reading unit to teach genres to upper elementary students. This genre reading unit includes reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments.

Genre is one of those topics that ALWAYS appears in testing! Doesn't matter what type of test - accelerated reader, NWEA Map, state, there will always be a question that relates to genre! It's also...