Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books (Genre Suite

by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell

Genre Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books is the foundational text of the Genre Study Suite. In exploring Genre Study, Fountas & Pinnell advocate teaching and learning in which students are actively engaged in developing genre understandings and applying their thinking to any genre. It is through using genre understandings that your students think, talk, and read texts with deeper understanding, and write effectively. Genre Study is a professional resource that teachers can use with students to embark on an exciting exploration into the study of genre. View Overview Webinar

The Genre Study Suite Bundle is a comprehensive suite of resources that focuses on genre study through inquiry-based learning with an emphasis on reading comprehension and the craft of writing. An inquiry approach engages students in exploring texts so that they can notice and name the characteristics of each genre and construct a working definition that guides their thinking of reading and writing. This suite provides the tools needed to help you and your students lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy exploration. The bundle In the Genre Prompting Guides, Fountas & Pinnell have organized prompts by genre, and also literary elements and structure. Fiction Genres
Realistic Fiction
Historical Fiction
Traditional Literature (including folktales, fairy tales, fables, epics, legends, ballads, and myths)
Modern Fantasy (including simple animal fantasy, low fantasy, high fantasy, and science fiction) Nonfiction Genres
Narrative Nonfiction
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Expository Nonfiction
Procedural Texts
Persuasive tests Forms of Poetry
Lyrical poetry
Narrative poetry
Free Verse
Haiku
Limericks
Concrete poems Test Taking
Multiple Choice Questions
Short Answer Questions
Extended Response Questions

Genres: Professional Development, Teaching, Education, Reference

536 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2012

Reviews

[Deborah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good explanations of how to use books as mentor texts and follow Katie Wood Ray's process for teaching students genre inquiry. But based on a simplistic view of genre theory (no references to Devitt, Bawarshi, Bazerman???) and the explications, although helpful to teachers, I suppose, seem to oppose the concept of inquiry: if students and teachers explore and come up with their own lists of characteristics of a kind of text, why does the book have lists? Those are some ideas, but will the lists encourage teachers to just use them instead of the important process? I hope not. Great list of mentor texts to use in inquiry, divided by grade levels, in the back of the book. That could be very useful to teachers, I think.

[Jaime · Rating 5 out of 5]

An invaluable resource for genre study! In our district we've noted our students perform well when asked to read like a reader, but struggle with reading like a writer. Those skills are best supported by writing the very genres they read and making decisions that writers make. I especially would love this book to be in the hands of my content-area colleagues!

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous- going to have to read this more than once, or maybe even buy it. Very dense and practical, not just for younger grade levels.

[Kathy McC · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great information that can be incorporated into the classroom.
Writing style wasn't too dull.

[Krystle Marcis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fabulous read from Fountas and Pinnell!