Identify The Genre Fun Activity

This Genre Identification resource allows students to use and build on their previous knowledge of genre conventions. Students will read six different paragraphs and analyse the language in order to identify the genre. They will offer written reasons for their choice. Students can highlight and underline key words in the text that pertain to the conventions of characters, setting, storyline, props and costumes that offer clues as to the genre of the mystery text.

Students can complete the identify the genre task as individuals using the grid or in groups using an individual sheet with each group focusing on one or two texts each and reporting their findings back to the class.
This resource includes two versions of the task. This identify the Genre task comes in a grid and in individual focus sheets to be distributed to groups of pupils focusing on one extract at a time. This will help you differentiate and strategise learning according to the abilities and strengths of your students.

Learning Objective of Lesson: To use my previous knowledge of genre conventions to identify the genre of a text.