Genre Quick Guide K-8
This spiral-bound companion to Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books is designed to help you actively engage students in the exploration of texts so that they can notice and name genre characteristics and construct working definitions that guide their thinking as readers and writers. This handy reference guide contains a master genre chart outlining the definitions, key characteristics (noticings), and a list of mentor texts by genre. In this resource, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell help you and your students lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy exploration and an understanding of the following genres:
Fiction Genres
Realistic Fiction
Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Traditional Literature
folktales
fairy tales
fables
legends
epics
ballads
myths
Modern Fantasy
animal fantasy
low fantasy
high fantasy
Science Fiction
Nonfiction Genres
Nonfiction
Narrative Nonfiction
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Expository Nonfiction
Persuasive
Procedural
Hybrid
Forms of Poetry
