The use of different types of classic literary genres such as lyric (poetry), drama (tragedy) and epic (fiction) and sub-genres such as non-fiction, autobiography, essay, satire, etc. helps students write about important people or issues in their lives. When students are encouraged to engage in inventive thinking, adaptability, and risk taking their writing is more likely to demonstrate higher-order thinking skills and sound reasoning.
Lesson Plans
How-To Books
Naomi and Alexandra use the creative non-fiction genre to support kindergartners language and vocabulary skills to write how-to books about topics of their expertise.
Acrostic Mother's Day Poems
Mother's Day is a wonderful time to work on poetry writing in the form of acrostics. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line. All lines of the poem should relate to or describe the topic word. One word or a phrase can be used to describe the topic word. Poems are written vertically down the page and they do not have to rhyme.
The Craft of Magazine Writing
Writing an Autobiography
The genre of autobiographical writing builds on the existing interest that middle school students already have in themselves and their lives while helping them develop and understand the craft of writing.
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