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The Genre Study Suite Bundle includes:
- Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books
- Genre Study Quick Guide a companion to Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books
- Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction
- Genre Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking
Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books is a comprehensive volume that focuses on genre study through inquiry-based learning with an emphasis on reading comprehension and the craft of writing. In exploring genre study, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell advocate a way of thinking and learning where students are actively engaged in the thinking process. You engage students deeply and constantly with a variety of high-quality texts so that they learn a process for building an internal foundation of information on which further learning may be based. They learn how to develop genre understanding and can apply their thinking to any genre. In Genre Study, the authors concentrate on three major instructional contexts for reading and writing, Interactive Read-Aloud, Readers' Workshop, and Writers' Workshop, which facilitate a deeper conversation about the study of genre and its role in high-quality literacy programs. Fountas and Pinnell have crafted a professional resource that teachers can use with students to embark on an exciting exploration into the study of genre.
This spiral-bound companion to Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books is designed to help you actively engage students in the exploration of texts so that they can notice and name genre characteristics and construct working definitions that guide their thinking as readers and writers. This handy reference guide contains a master genre chart outlining the definitions, key characteristics (noticings), and a list of mentor texts by genre. In this resource, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell help you and your students lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy exploration and an understanding of several genres.
Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's Genre Study Prompting Guide for Fiction and Genre Study Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking are comprehensive tools that you can use to explore fiction and nonfiction genres with your students during interactive read-aloud, Reader's workshop, Writer's workshop, guided reading lessons, shared reading, and intervention lessons. The prompts in these ready-reference flip charts are designed to help teachers guide students' inquiry toward explicit understandings of the characteristics of genres. Each prompting guide contains precise language for teaching readers how to focus their thinking and understanding of genres through inquiry.
In the Genre Study Prompting Guide for Fiction, Fountas and Pinnell have organized fiction prompts by genre as well as by literary elements and structure. Help you and your students lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy exploration and an understanding of several genres.
The Fountas & Pinnell Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction and Genre Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking are comprehensive tools that you can use to explore fiction and nonfiction genres with your students during interactive read-aloud, Reader’s workshop, Writer’s workshop, guided reading lessons, shared reading, and intervention lessons. The prompts in these ready reference flip charts are designed to help teachers guide students’ inquiry toward explicit understandings of the characteristics of genres. Each prompting guide contains precise language for teaching readers how to focus their thinking and understanding of genre through inquiry.