Book Genre Sorting Activity

Tool put the book images next to a possible label.

Book genre sorting activity. This is just an introduction to see what you already know using some books that you might be familiar with. On friday we ll be sorting the books into six genres. This sorting activity addresses critical thinking skills observation and categorization processes and reading comprehension and writing skills while at the same time providing teachers with a vast array of diagnostics through observation of student interaction and conversation.

Being aware of different genres helps your students to be informed readers. Students work as a class to sort books first according to their covers and then according to their topics. Later in the year i ll have the kids write them in themselves but i want to make it easy for this first go around.

Have your students review book genres with this sorting activity. Children need to match the type of genre to the definition. Helping children to engage interactively with their learning in this manner is a fantastic.

This interactive notebook is a sorting activity that calls for students to use their prior knowledge of the four basic genres of fiction non fiction poetry and drama to classify the subgenres. Students cut and paste definitions descriptions to the correct book genre. Students read book descriptions on cards and then placed the books under the name of the genre they felt the books fit into.

This activity will help your students learn more about the different types of books they can read. Usingdon t wake the librarian sorting books by genre activity students will return books to the library based on genre type without waking the librarian. I printed these as 6 slides per page and cut the slides up.

Then they flipped the cards over and used the app i nigma to check their answers or if the ipads were not avaiable they could use the answer sheet provided at their table. About different types of books. An answer sheet is provided as part of this resource for convenience.