Genre Activities

Are you looking for some activities to teach genres?  Got you covered.  Check out these awesome activities:

Introduce genres with these activity packs:

Historical Fiction Pack

You can try out this free Historical Fiction pack to get an idea of the types of activities included in the genre packs.  Click HERE to access this freebie.

Realistic Fiction Activity Pack

Or try this Realistic Fiction Activity Pack freebie. This is a free download from my Google Drive.  

In order to save the file, you will need to download it to your computer by clicking on the arrow next to the three dots in the top left-hand corner.

Mystery Genre Activity for 2nd-3rd

After teaching the mystery genre, have students match up genre vocabulary words and definitions as a quick check for understanding.

Mystery Genre Activity for 4th-6th

There is also a 4th-6th grade version.

Each lesson comes with an introduction to genres as well as an activity.

Genre Sort Activity Pack

Use this Genre Sort Activity Pack to review genres after you've taught them.  Includes book descriptions that student read and then decide what genre the book would fit in. Students check their answers with QR codes.

And if you need some posters to display as anchor charts or bookmarks to handout to reinforce your lessons- got you covered there, too.

Genre Posters Pack

Includes posters for 28 different genres including...

and

Genre Bookmarks

This product includes bookmarks for 28 different genres including...

and

Genre Mega Pack

OR purchase the Genre Mega Pack and get the posters and bookmarks at a discounted price!

More Summer Projects

Can't believe the summer is half over!  Oh my, have I still got a lot to accomplish, but I have crossed a few things off my to do list, one of them being to create and upload more files to Teachers Pay Teachers.

After receiving a few request via email, here's what's I came up with:

I made "Rock Star" passes for classrooms. They include

Boys' Bathroom Pass

Girls Bathroom Pass

2 Hall Passes

2 Office Passes

Nurse Pass

Library Pass

You can get them here on TpT.

Also available with a "zebra print" border.  Get those here on TpT.

I also made the "Read Like a Rock Star" bunting available for purchase by itself.  It comes in both an orange and white version.

It's on TpT.  You can get it here.

I've also updated my Genre bookmarks pack:

This pack now includes 28 genres (previously 19).

This Genre Bookmark pack can be found HERE on TpT.

I have also created a set of 28 Genre Posters. Here are are a few examples:

And here are a few other examples:

You can get the entire pack of 28 genres, HERE on TpT.

And finally, I put all the genre goodies together in one big Genre Mega Pack:

This pack includes posters, secret symbols and bookmarks for 28 genres.  You can purchase this pack HERE on TpT.

Use the posters and bookmarks in this pack for a Genre of the Month program.  (You can read about my Genre of the Month program on this post.)  Hide the secret symbols in books for the genre you are highlighting to encourage students to check out and read those types of books and they can earn a prize.  The genres included in the pack are 

Adventure
Animal Fiction
Biography
Autobiography
Blog
Comedy
Drama
Essay
Fables
Fairy Tales
Folk Tale
Legend
Myth
Tall Tales
Fantasy
Graphic Novels
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Non-fiction
Informational Text
Fiction
Poetry
Realistic Fiction
Reference
Science Fiction
Speech
Traditional Literature
Travel

I've also made some new shelf markers to go with the "Rock Star" theme of the Media Center.

I used some free paint sticks from Wal-Mart, silver spray paint, some glitter paint, sealer and some glitter stars to create these babies.  Love how they turned out.

Then I broke out my embroidery machine and made a few improvements on some simple t-shirts so that I would have more school spirit shirts to wear.

Our mascot is a Wildcat so I made a paw print applique and added MES for Moreland Elementary School. Kinda cute.

I also made a shirt for my nine year old son who has been bugging me to make him one, complete with his name.

He wants to create an "arcade" in our garage and this would be his "work" shirt.  LOL

He came up with the name on his own and we designed the logo together. It was a nice mother/son project.

Now I just have to start cleaning and organizing again.  My house is in desperate need of cleaning and organizing, too.  Maybe I will get it all done before the summer is over.  I can hope, right?