Teaching Genre: Explore 9 Types of Literature to Develop Lifelong Readers and Writers

by Tara MacCarthy

This book will get kids excited about exploring 9 different genres: Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Folk Literature, Autobiography, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Informational Reports, Biography, Poetry, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590603450
• ISBN13: 9780590603454
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 8

Customer Reviews

Already have used this book in my class

This was a great transaction! This book was exactly what I was needing. Thanks

What a find!

I'm doing my student teaching in a master's program in Oregon. I'm in a school district that doesn't have set 'guidelines' for what you teach and when you teach it so when my supervisor said I was going to teach 'literary genre', I was lost. I researched the topic and quickly realized that it was a dry and boring topic that would need a lot of help. I found this book online and thought it could work (even though it's geared toward 4-8 grade students, my 3rd and 4th graders did wonderfully). I was amazed at how much information was stuffed into that book and how many reproducible-quality worksheets were available. Nothing in the book was just 'so-so'- it was all fantastic and the kids LOVED the topic and the interesting and creative writing assignments. Boy, just when I was at my wits end creatively speaking, in stepped this book (by scholastic, OF COURSE) and saved me. Teachers and parents, this is a fabulous resource.

Teaching literature to children? or Children's Literature?

This is a great, inexpensive resource for teachers! It offers concrete examples of books representing the various genres, and exercises as well! This is a blessing for the teacher of Literature for Children courses!