Creating Genre Conventions

This creating genre conventions resource shows students how they can use conventions to portray a particular genre of their choice. The resource contains a number of icons, each representing a specific genre for students to work from to fill their own convention descriptions in the provided grid.
By looking at the conventions used within a creative text we can identify its genre. Students can use their learning from previous resources in this series to build on their knowledge of genre conventions.
The icons represent the genres of Science Fiction, horror, fantasy, romance, musical and action. You can illicit students’ understanding of how these genres are conveyed through films they have watched or books they have read through class discussion and notes on the whiteboard.
This resource is ideal for both Key stage 3 and key stage 4 learners studying creative writing, literature, media studies and film studies.

Learning Objective of Lesson: To use my understanding of genre conventions to write convention descriptions in a genre of my choice.