GENRE EXPERTS
This genre often includes dragons, magical powers, or impossible events.
What is Fantasy?
Facts, dates, statistics, and explanations.
What are clues for Inform?
The place and time where a story happens.
What is the Setting?
Students must identify whether their book is one of these two categories first.
What are fiction or nonfiction?
These help readers predict what a non fiction text might be about before reading.
What are titles, pictures, and headings?
A book about a person's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
Emotional language, opinions, and reasons.
What are clues for Persuade?
The character most important to the story.
What is the Protagonist?
Students must explain whether they would recommend the book and give this.
What is a rating?
Reading the questions before the passage helps students focus on finding this.
What is important information or answers?
A book about a person's own life experiences written by that person.
What is a Memoir?
* I will accept autobiography
Dialogue, suspense, humor, and characters.
What are clues for Entertain?
During this part of the plot, tension and suspense continue to increase.
What is Rising Action?
Students must turn in their project by this specific due date
What is September 22nd?
When readers reread a passage, they are doing this.
What is checking for understanding?
The genre of Letters From Birmingham because it connects a story to the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Historical Fiction?
"If you haven't joined a club yet, this is the year to try something new!"
What is Persuade?
* I will accept Call to action.
The point in the story where everything changes and the biggest decision or event occurs.
What is the Climax?
One presentation option allows students to create a commercial selling their book.
What is a Book Advertisement?
Defining unfamiliar vocabulary helps improve this.
What is comprehension/understanding?
This genre focuses on teaching readers about a topic using facts and information.
What is Informational Text?
* I will accept non fiction text or examples such as textbook, magazine etc.
"The first basketball game used peach baskets."
What is Inform?
The lesson, message, or understanding readers take away from a story.
What is the Theme?
One presentation option asks students to create a 1-3 minute preview without revealing the ending.
What is a Book Trailer?
Good readers do this after answering all questions.
What is check their work?