Help your students understand that what they are reading has a purpose. Show them how the text form and structure chosen by the writer assists them to fully comprehend the text. Help them become effective readers—and effective writers, too!

This book unpacks six key genres:

• Recount
• Narrative
• Procedure
• Explanation
• Persuasive Text
• Report

Plus, bonus genre studies:

• Article
• Essay
• Biography/Autobiography

Teachers: Use the resources in the Guide to Genre to plan and teach successful genre studies in your classrooms. Each of the Genre Studies feature:

• Sample texts
• Sources for sample texts
• Useful Websites
• Reproducible Genre Frames
• Suggestions for Genre-Specific Mini-Lessons
• Reproducible Teacher Assessment Rubrics
• Reproducible Student-friendly Rubrics