ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Everyone Loves a Mystery a Genre Study
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the mystery story genre, including its story elements and vocabulary. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Teaching With Pourquoi Tales
This site features activities that revolve around "Teaching With Pourquoi Tales." Students will learn more about these types of old legends that deal with the natural world.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre: Comedy
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use these resources to explore the comic traditions of Shakespeare and discover how the different plays reflect these conventions and compare with each other. The resources include videos, images,...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre: History
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources will help you determine if Shakespeare's historical plays were accurate or more political and cultural statements about the times he lived in. They include videos, articles,...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Reel to Real: Twelfth Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show presentation lesson about Shakespeare's Twelfth Night including drawings of the characters in costume and a collection of video clips from Into Film and material from the Victoria...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Comedy: Much Ado About Nothing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive study guide/lesson for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and also about Shakespeare's comedies in general. It includes an introduction, worksheets, plot summaries of different...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
Workshop 5 centers on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. As students explore different avenues for translating...
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.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Blending Multiple Genres in Theme Baskets
The theme-basket concept of literature instruction combines several approaches known to work with marginalized readers, students with learning disabilities, and ELLs: 1) a thematic approach to teaching literature, 2) the use of...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Biography Kindergarten Unit: Important Person
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler to teach students what biography is and why the subjects of biographies are important people. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach young scholars how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Real and Make Believe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where students learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...
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Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Historical Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A unit of instruction in which learners use the book Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Porter to learn about the characteristics that define historical fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Biography
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler to learn about the characteristics that define boigraphy. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Random Grouping Techniques
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a strategy for cooperative learning groups. Students will be divided by the following methods: students' similarities and differences, genres, and random means.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: The Frog Prince
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that fairy tales start with "Once upon a time" and have a happy ending.
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Read Works: Lessons: Go, Dog. Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a fiction text.
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