Fountas & Pinnell Genre Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking

The Fountas & Pinnell Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction and Genre Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking are comprehensive tools that you can use to explore fiction and nonfiction genres with your students during interactive read-aloud, Reader’s workshop, Writer’s workshop, guided reading lessons, shared reading, and intervention lessons.

The prompts in these ready reference flip charts are designed to help teachers guide students’ inquiry toward explicit understandings of the characteristics of genres. Each prompting guide contains precise language for teaching readers how to focus their thinking and understanding of genre through inquiry.

• Nonfiction
• Narrative
• Nonfiction - Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Expository
• Nonfiction - Persuasive Texts, Procedural Texts, Hybrid Texts
• Poetry
• Test Taking
• Multiple Choice Questions
• Constructed Response Questions

Samples