READING
LITERACY: Reading for Information - Information Genres |
Students live in an information-based, visual world. Books have become a form of media. Like fiction, there is a wide variety of information genre and recognizable authors. One of the roles of the teacher-librarian is to introduce students to the genres of information books. |
| Have you introduced your students to... |
| Photos Essays: pictures and text on one topic |
Fact Books: books of records |
Biographies: memoirs, autobiographies, individual biographies, and collected biographies |
| How-To-Books: crafts, games, recipes, building |
Concept Books: ABC, number concepts, relational concepts (like opposites, colour, etc.) |
| Action Books: engineered books; includes parts, interactivitie activities, pop-ups, etc. |
| Activity Books: workbooks, books that come with materials for making things |
| Series Books: same format with a different book on each topic; series about "space"--Living in Space, Space Travel, Astronauts, etc. |
| Question and Answer Books: poses a question which is immediately followed by an answer; format is bright and busy and text is presented in short infobits. |
| Cross Genre Books: incorporates aspects of more than one genre |
Single Topic Books: book on one topic; "working dogs" rather than "dogs" in general. |
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Read Aloud |
Read Along |
Read Alone |
Read A Lot |
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Permission: Educators are welcome to use this information for any non-commercial, professional activities. Users are expected to acknowledge the source, Dr. Ray Doiron, University of Prince Edward Island. |
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