[LM_NET] HIT: Help with genres

["Spielman, Kathy" <kspielman@PYLUSD.ORG>]

Thanks to everyone that responded to my request for help teaching genres. I 
appreciate the time you spent to help me. You are all such a wonderful resource.
Kathy
Kathy Spielman
Middle School Library/Media Technician
Yorba Linda Middle School
4777 Casa Loma Ave.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
714-528-7090 ext.24662
kspielman@pylusd.org
"...if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." - 
John Dewey



This is incredible from Cheryl Youse

You are welcome to use my PowerPoints.  Also, one lesson I have always liked was to 
put a stuffed cat in a bird cage and then ask the kids to explain why/how it got in 
there--make it science fiction, make it realistic, make it historical, etc.  They 
like it.

 <http://www.colquitt.k12.ga.us/cchsmedia/documents.htm> 
http://www.colquitt.k12.ga.us/cchsmedia/documents.htm
 

I use a really great game called The Genre Game that I got from Library Skills

http://www.libraryskills.com/products.cfm?subcategory=The%20Genre%20Game 
<http://www.libraryskills.com/products.cfm?subcategory=The%20Genre%20Game&category=Library%20Games>
 &category=Library%20Games

Brianna Huffman even sent a game she made up.

However, you could make your own easily. Select 4-5 books in each genre

category. Place each genre's books on a separate table. Divide the

class into groups of 3-5 (one group for each genre). Each person will

need a piece of paper. At each table, the group will look at the books:

covers, blurbs, first page. Then they will discuss the books with their

group members. Enter their own personal choice for best cover, best

blurb, and best beginning on their paper. After about 10 minutes, move

to the next zone and do the same at each table until all genre zones

have been visited. Reduce the amount of time at each zone as the

students get quicker at the tasks so that you maintain a sense of

urgency.

A great book for teaching genres is Thinking Through Genre: Units of Study in 
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" 
/>Reading and Writing Workshops 4-12 by Heather Lattimer (ISBN: 978-157110-352-9) 
pub. 2003.  I've used parts of it for teaching genres and writing to 7th graders, 
and another teacher at our middle school has used it with 8th graders successfully 
(even though neither of us had a pure reading/writing workshop approach).

 
Many people sent the following links:
 
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=270
 
http://www.roundrockisd.org/docs/literary_genres.doc
 
http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0352ch01.pdf
 
 


 
 

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