Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library: Book Hive: Find a Book
This interactive site allows students to search for books by genre or to search for specific book reviews.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Genre Study Lesson Plan
This lesson plan on genre study teaches writing within a genre as parting of a writing craft. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Arts 5
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related genres found in film and fiction. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
TES Global
Blendspace: Fantasy
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts to use while learning about the fantasy genre.
TES Global
Blendspace: Magical Realism
A fourteen-part learning module with links to images, slides, videos, texts, and websites on the literary technique of magical realism.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart accompanies the story Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind from the Scholastic Reading Series, Literacy Place for 4th grade. It introduces and discusses the genre of tall tales, vocabulary,...
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fiction, Non Fiction and Dewey Decimal
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students in the Media Center recognize the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction books and locate items on library shelves using call numbers.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: English Worksheets and Tests
Downloadable worksheets and tests focusing on reading, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, and text structure for middle grades.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fantasy
This lesson introduces the fantasy genre. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Other
Mystery Net: Edgar Allan Poe
Biography and analysis of the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. Examines Poe's contribution to the mystery genre. Also provides the text of several of Poe's writings.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: High School English Literary Terms
This article focuses on a variety of key literary terms used in high school English including their definitions. These terms include flashback, genre, irony, parody, satire, setting, subplot, tone, and symbol.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Black Ear, Blond Ear
In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, relations between the blonde cats and the black cats, who live on different sides of the river, learn about each other when they exchange ears.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Blue Sky
In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, a sad and lonely little girl dreams of seeing her mother again as she watches the clouds in the sky.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Genre
Brief definition of the literary term.