Reading Genre Sort Activity – TEKS Aligned Hands-On Genre Review

Description

A hands-on way to review reading genres. In this TEKS-aligned sorting activity, students match example texts with their genre and author’s purpose to build a deep understanding of each genre.

A hands-on genre review activity! Students demonstrate and build their understanding of reading genres by sorting example texts, author’s purpose cards, and academic vocabulary words into these genre categories: fiction, expository, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction/biography, and persuasive.

This TEKS-aligned product includes…

• Background information
• Teacher tips
• Lesson ideas: 4 different ideas for delivering this lesson
• Pictures from 3 different lesson ideas
• Materials for My Genre Minibook
• Sample texts for the following genres: drama, fiction, expository, poetry, literary nonfiction, and persuasive
• Genre headers for each genre
• Author’s purpose cards for each genre
• Vocabulary cards to sort into genres
• Answer Key for the sort
• Two different recording sheets (one with persuasive and one without)

Once purchased, this resource is designated for use in one classroom. If your colleagues would like to use it, please purchase additional licenses or encourage them to purchase it themselves!