Genre activities

If you're a teacher looking for tips and ideas for teaching genres to elementary students, you found the right spot! Learn all about it here!

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Genre anchor chart and free printables!

Free genre review reading puzzles! Reading games and centers are a great way to spice up your reading instruction and have your students practice important reading skills. Grab a free reading centers starter pack on this post!

Use these genre puzzles as a fun review or practice activity. These make great center activities for the classroom or library.

We have been learning a lot about genre and the specifics of nonfiction, but I am out of the classroom this Friday and I want a fun activity for kids to work on that would give them the chance to sort lots of books without obliterating our class library, especially with a sub! I originally saw this idea on Jen's blog, The Teacher's Cauldron, and knew it would be the perfect way to help kids *and* get rid of all of the catalogs that are already beginning to stack up in my room (bonus!)…

Learn how teaching reading genre can actually create engaged readers! That's right! Genre can help your students find books they love causing them to fall in love with reading! When students find books they love, they improve their reading comprehension, which lets be honest that's a main goal of yours as a reading teacher! Learn how to effectively teach genre in the elementary classroom and create a classroom full of engaged readers!

Since today is Halloween but our fall 'harvest' parties aren't for a couple of weeks, my coteacher and I decided to squeeze in some Hallowee...

So weve got a bunch of kids, right? They all love different kinds of stories - some are all about adventures, while some cant get enough of those fairy tales.