This bundle includes six engaging activities/resources to take you from start to finish in teaching your students how to identify and analyze genre. Featuring resources on basic genres, as well as subgenres and common themes, there are plenty of opportunities for differentiation and these resources are usable in a wide variety of grades, from 5th to 9th.

What's Included?

• A discovery learning activity that has students pull from their background knowledge and work together to think about how we categorize media and why these categories are important.

• A direct instruction lesson set that includes. . .
  • one presentation with thorough, but concise, information on various genres and another presentation that also defines popular subgenres and common themes
  • doodle notes
  • 2 corresponding sets of practice packets with passages labelled for guided practice, partner practice, and independent practice
  • a quiz and answer key
  • A subgenres and common themes handout to go along with the advanced version of the presentation and practice.

• 2 guiding "Identifying Genre" graphic organizers: a flow chart that leads students through questions to identify genre, such as time, place, and mood/emotions and a chart of common traits in each basic genre

• A popular subgenres and common themes handout that takes your students beyond the basic genres to explore popular subgenres and common themes found in them (also included in the lesson set)

• A writing connection activity intended to get students thinking deeply about genre by incorporating genre elements purposefully in their own story and using them to convey theme

• A performance assessment that has students read a text you assign and use any one of the three provided note-taking sheets to record the elements of genre they notice and how these elements develop the theme. They then write a paragraph about their thinking process.

This whole bundle can be used with any texts that are relevant in your classroom! 

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