Identifying the Genre of a Story Worksheet
- Grades
- Grades 1–3
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Literature
- Topic
- story genres, fiction and nonfiction
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- RL.1.5
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This worksheet helps students learn about different genres of stories by matching book covers to genre labels.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Distinguish major literary and informational genres
Use cover clues to predict a text type
Explain why a title or image suggests a particular genre
Teaching tips
Review one defining feature of each genre before beginning the matches.
Treat ambiguous covers as discussion opportunities and ask which clue is strongest.
Skills covered
Genre recognition
Cover-clue interpretation
Text-type classification
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Is there only one possible genre for each book?
The supplied key gives one match for each cover. Discuss overlapping genres with students, since a book can fit more than one category.
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Standards
Standards
- RL.1.5
Core concepts
Core concepts
Literary genres
Informational genres
Book covers
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