Genre Introduction Worksheet

This genre introduction worksheet is a visual based resource, designed to give students a basic idea of the concept of genre. It requires students to create mind map using the given definition of the genre at the top of the worksheet. This genre worksheet also contains four genre images to help students to generate ideas for their mind map about the different genres they know of through books and films that they have read and watched.
This resource is suitable for students at Key Stage 3 & 4 who are doing creative writing, literature analysis, media studies and film studies.

The resource can be extended to ask students in pairs or groups to come up with as many books or film titles from a given genre as they can adding a fun and competitive element to the activity.

These completed worksheets will also look good as part of a display.