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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: A Taxonomy of Literary Genre [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A series of graphic organizers shows the progression of learning about literary genre, beginning in kindergarten and building through to fifth grade.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
The Feminist Theory Website at Virginia Tech University provides a list of all types of feminist literary criticism and theory.
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Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Design a Theme Park About Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a WebQuest lesson in which students design a theme park consisting of musical "Lands," of various styles and genres.
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Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Literary Genres

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Literary Genres."
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
You will learn how to analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support your understanding.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to compare and contrast themes and genre across history and cultures.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes across various genres by finding supporting evidence within each of the texts. This task will require you to use your analytical reading skills, and it...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compare and contrast similar themes from different genres and different time periods.
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[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...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Genre

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief definition of the literary term.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Genres Activotes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an Activote genre quiz to go along with Genres lesson.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Genres

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction lesson on fiction and nonfiction genres.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of "drama" in writing.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Fable

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of fables. Example included.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Artifacts and Fiction: Workshop in American Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This workshop, which is divided into eight segments, teaches how to use primary source artifacts from a variety of genres to support the teaching and learning of specific pieces of literature. The genres include visual arts, political...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Genre

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces genre in fiction.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Blending Multiple Genres in Theme Baskets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Animal Farm Analysis: Literary Devices in Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a literary analysis of Animal Farm by George Orwell using the literary devices in the novel including symbolism, imagery, allegory, setting, point of view, genre, tone, writing style, plot analysis and more.
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Teaching With Pourquoi Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features activities that revolve around "Teaching With Pourquoi Tales." Learners will learn more about these types of old legends that deal with the natural world.

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