Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's 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 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 the following genres:
Fiction Genres
- Realistic Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Fantasy
- Traditional Literature
- folktales
- fairy tales
- fables
- legends
- epics
- ballads
- myths
- Modern Fantasy
- animal fantasy
- low fantasy
- high fantasy
- Science Fiction
In the Genre Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have organized nonfiction, poetry, and test taking 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 the following genres:
Nonfiction Genres
- Nonfiction
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Biography
- Autobiography
- Memoir
- Expository Nonfiction
- Persuasive
- Procedural
- Hybrid
- Forms of Poetry
- Lyrical Poetry
- Narrative Poetry
- Free Verse
- Haiku
- Limericks
- Concrete Poems
- Test Taking
- Multiple Choice Questions
- Short Answer Questions
- Extended Response Questions
