Literary Genres
This genre is meant to be performed and includes stage directions and dialogue.
What is drama?
Reading the text again to help with understanding.
What is re-reading?
Typing an answer to the question.
What is answer the question?
Making a list of all of your ideas and organizing them.
What is Brainstorming or Planning?
How many children does Ms. Burks have?
What is 2 Children? Caleb & Olivia
This genre has no rules - it can have no punctuation, make a shape, and rhyme or not.
What is poetry?
A tool used to find the meaning of unfamiliar words.
What is a dictionary?
Quoting the text to prove your answer.
What is Cite Evidence?
Writing down ways to explain your idea.
What is developing ideas?
What is Ms. Burks favorite color?
What is pink?
This genre has many different subgenres like realistic, historical, science, literary, myths, legends, etc.
What is fiction?
Stating the beginning, middle, and end of a text or the main ideas of a text.
What is a summary?
Developing your answer with more information.
What is Explaining your Answer?
Writing an introduction, developed ideas, and conclusion.
What is Drafting?
What type of pet does Ms. Burks have?
What is a cat? Otis
This genre gives you information on a specific topic often including text features like titles, subtitles, pictures, etc.
What is informational text?
Making notes about text.
What is annotate?
Saying the prompt as a statement.
What is Restating the Prompt?
Changing the words in your essay to make the essay sound more clear and descriptive.
What is revising?
How long has Ms. Burks been teaching?
What is 13 years?
This genre is informational but gives you steps or directions to do/make something.
What is procedural?
Highlighting/Marking support for an answer from the text.
What is text evidence?
2 things needed to complete every sentence.
What is capitalization and punctuation?
Fixing your essay for capitalization, punctuation, and other grammar mistakes.
What is editing?
What are Ms. Burks 2 favorite animals?
What is an otter and a shark?