Identifying the Genre of a Story Worksheet
Identifying the Genre of a Story introduces genre as a way to group texts by form, purpose, and typical features. Learners examine sample covers and connect each one to a label such as poetry, fantasy, nonfiction, mythology, history, realistic fiction, drama, mystery, fable, or fairy tale. Teacher support is explicitly invited in the directions, making the task suitable for guided discussion of visual and title clues. A completed second page supplies the intended matches for review.
- Year groups
- Years 2–4 (Key Stages 1–2)
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, English
- Topic
- Genres, Genres Worksheets
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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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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