Genre+Knowledge


 * GENRE **

What it is?
 * Type or form of artistic expression.
 * Recently, it is the purpose of a text, with the features of the text following from its purpose.
 * Many different social contexts and purposes for text.
 * Trip to the grocery store:
 * signals, labels, advertisements, information, etc.
 * multiple types of genres

Importance of Genre:
 * Success in school and beyond requires the ability to understand and write particular genres
 * Knowledge of one genre does not lead to knowledge of all genres.
 * One genre instruction does not transfer to the next.
 * Development of genre knowledge is important to literacy development.

Genres Commonly Used at Home:
 * 1) Names
 * 2) Labels
 * 3) Newspaper
 * 4) Game-related Print
 * 5) Letters
 * 6) Biblical Text

Genres in Home/School
 * 1) Children's books
 * 2) Individual words and letters (not part of textual genres)
 * 3) Lists

Genres Commonly Used at School
 * 1) Worksheets
 * 2) Individual sentences
 * 3) Journals
 * 4) Descriptive Text
 * 5) Charts
 * 6) Poems

Genre PowerPoint: