ArtLex
Art Lex: Genre
Clear definitions of genre. Includes examples of genre painting, "the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life," and each painting links to a website with further information.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: American Art to 1900
Study works of American art from the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. Works in a variety of media, including the decorative arts, are represented as are pieces by some of America's best-known artists: Copley, Church, Homer, and...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Genre Activities
This learning module features "genre" as the topic for PowerPoint presentations, lessons, and quizzes. Numerous projects with the "genre" theme are available for further exploration as opportunities for more in-depth investigations.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Fable
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Fable." It defines the term, explains its characteristics, provides background including Aseop's Fables and those from various countries, and offers a list of fabulists and their works.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central
A comprehensive site dedicated to the English sonnet. Site includes numerous pages grouped by country of origin and historic period. Also included is literary criticism of various sonnets and advice on how to write a sonnet. Click on the...
Other
Financial Fiction Genre: Banking and Finance in Lit.
Money and finance has played a role in fiction since Chaucer's Reeve's Tale. This interesting page points out some of the works in which money and/or finance plays a pivotal role.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Basic Mechanics
This page focuses on the basic mechanics of writing including links to Genre, Thinking, Methods of Reasoning, Evidence, and Citation.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Genre
This page focuses on genre which cautions students to be sure there are writing the type of writing that was assigned. They need to know the different genres and what is expected of them.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom
This lesson plan explores the use of comics in the classroom as a gateway to genre study. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts
This lesson plan deals with the process of analyzing a variety of literary texts from poetry and letters to diary entries and works of fiction. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weaving the Multigenre Web
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.
Other
Virtual Instrument Museum: Musical Genres
This page lists all of the musical genres covered by the Virtual Instrument Museum. Each genre will link to a picture and information specific to that genre including information on the instruments associated with the particular genre.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: A Taxonomy of Literary Genre [Pdf]
A series of graphic organizers shows the progression of learning about literary genre, beginning in kindergarten and building through to fifth grade.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Reading Within Genre [Pdf]
A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Reading Activities
An assortment of reading mini-projects are included on this site. Reading skills worksheets and differentiated reading activities are also included.
TES Global
Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream Gallery: The Mechanicals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show of Royal Shakespeare Company production photos of "The Mechanicals" in A Midsummer Night's Dream which can be used to compare interpretations and to spark discussion.
TES Global
Tes: The Comedy of Errors Schools' Synopsis by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is the Royal Shakespeare Company's synopsis of Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors.
TES Global
Tes: Genre: Ancient Greek Theatre: Comedy and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show with images and information about Ancient Greek Theatre including the masks used for comedies and tragedies.
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare on Screen: Comedies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a BFI teacher factsheet "Shakespeare's Comedies" from Shakespeare on Film. It discusses Shakespeare's comedies and the adaptations of them.
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare on Screen: History Plays
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher factsheet "Shakespeare's Histories" about Shakespeare's history plays from BFI's Shakespeare on Film.