Genre Posters for Your Classroom

Genre Posters for the Classroom

Are you looking for a bright and colorful bulletin board that teaches?

Catch their attention with these bright and colorful posters to teach genre in children's literature. You can refer to these posters in the ELA classroom. Identifying genres in reading class may improve reading achievement and be a springboard for many meaningful classroom discussions. Each poster is titled with a specific genre, a definition of the genre, and examples 

from the wide world of children's literature.

Each poster measures 8.5" x 11"  ...introduce

the genre one at a time and create a colorful 

bulletin board that teaches.  There are 17 posters, each depicting a specific genre.

Your students will remember the genre 

when you post the different kinds in your classroom.  Bold lettering and fun clip art. 

Teaching third graders about literary genres offers several key benefits:

1. Enhances Comprehension

Understanding genres helps students anticipate a text's structure, themes, and elements. For example, knowing they're reading a mystery will prompt them to look for clues and try to solve the puzzle, encouraging more profound engagement with the material.

2. Develops Critical Thinking

Identifying genres helps students analyze and categorize books based on their characteristics. This practice promotes critical thinking as they learn to compare and contrast different types of stories, recognizing the unique features that define each genre.

3. Encourages Exploration

Exposure to various genres broadens students' reading experiences. It encourages them to explore books outside their comfort zone and fosters a love for diverse types of literature, from fantasy and fiction to biographies and informational texts.

4. Supports Writing Skills

Understanding the structure and features of different genres helps students improve their writing. They can mimic genre-specific styles, whether the suspense of a mystery or the imaginative setting of a fantasy story, enhancing their creative and narrative writing abilities.

5. Improves Vocabulary and Language Skills

Different genres introduce varied vocabulary, sentence structures, and language patterns. For instance, poetry emphasizes rhythm and word choice, while informational texts focus on technical vocabulary, improving students' overall language development.

6. Boosts Reading Motivation

By introducing a range of genres, students are more likely to find types of books that resonate with them. This can increase their interest in reading and motivate them to read for pleasure, strengthening their literacy skills.

7. Builds Cultural and Emotional Awareness

Different genres often explore a variety of themes, perspectives, and cultures. Students gain a broader understanding of the world by reading across genres, helping them develop empathy and emotional intelligence.

Incorporating genre studies in third grade helps students become more well-rounded readers and sets a solid foundation for future literacy development.

Halloween Resources Waiting for Your Students to Read, Interact and Enjoy!

Are You Ready for Some Halloween 

reading, writing, and fun!

Halloween Printables

Halloween Safety Tips

These printable cards are an easy way to teach children safety tips for Halloween. Go over the tips at school or at home, and hand out the cards one by one.

Frankencrayon- Book Companion

Learning color names and writing about reading! For beginning readers and writers. Read this excellent book, Frankencrayon , by Michael Hall, and then write about the book. Even make a scribble monster! It's motivating! It's educational, and it's fun! Literacy lesson #1: read good books; read, think, write, listen, share!

My Teacher On Halloween

5 Writing Prompts about what "My Teacher Will Be On Halloween".   This is a fun 

and high-interest writing assignment.

Children love to think about what the teacher might be on Halloween... and teachers love to see what they write! Write and Draw! My Teacher On Halloween!

Double-Digit Addition & Subtraction

Double-digit Addition and Subtraction Practice Pages with a Halloween Theme. These worksheets provide practice in adding and subtracting double-digit numbers without regrouping. They can be fun and colorful, and they can be used to practice the skill of adding and subtracting double-digit numbers with a Halloween theme. Also, practice adding 3 single digits to a column. Set them at a math station for needed practice on a math skill learned and mastered. Assign for independent math practice for double-digit addition and subtraction.  

There are 12 total worksheets and 12 answer sheets included.

Creepy Carrots

This book entertains the reader and the listeners with Jasper's adventures at Crackenhopper Field.   Read about creepy carrots and learn how Jasper solves his problem. It's fun fiction! And leads to an ending that makes the reader think. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages to write about the book.

Also included is a Creepy Carrot craftivity.     Make these creepy carrots and create a colorful bulletin board.

Focus Skills are:

• interactive reading booklet
• story elements
• illustration
• drawing creepy carrots
• How many carrots are enough?
• describing the main character
• character traits
• fill-in-blank activity
• 4-square to write about story elements
• illustrating story events
• create your own creepy carrot with templates and directions
• 34 pages to respond to the book
• reading conference questions
• teacher directions

Engage your students this Halloween by reading, thinking, writing, and drawing 

around the theme of Halloween. Interactive Reading Booklet

17 Halloween Writing prompts! Word Study and Poetry! Seven Label the Pictures- 

Cut and Paste Seven labeling pages where early writers will label the pictures. These pages are cut and pasted, and children read the words, reread them, and then cut them out and paste them in the correct box 

to show the word's meaning.

• seventeen Halloween Writing Prompts
• writing prompts with word boxes
• writing prompts with sentence starters
• writing prompts with title
• writing prompts with 'give reasons why.'
• 4 Halloween Poems - read for fluency, read at school, read at home
• Read and Follow the Directions page

Interactive Reading Booklet - "The Halloween Parade"

Easy to download and assemble - 2 booklets on a page - print 2 sides

Teacher directions included - this is so easy !!

Students write in the booklet to complete the sentences and also color the pictures. This booklet has easy, repetitive text for beginning readers, and students love reading it—more than once!

This resource also includes the vocabulary needed for your booklets. Words your students need for interactive booklets can be displayed in your classroom or literacy center. Also included are some blank vocabulary cards if you need to write in some additional words for your Halloween word bank.  

Grab this Halloween resource for Writing Prompts 

and more   HERE

Spookley, the Square Pumpkin, 

by Joe Troiano.

Spookley feels sad, lonely, and square in this story, and those other pumpkins are teasing him! But only for a short time, as you will read, to find out what makes being square a unique feature and helps solve a big problem. This book entertains the reader and listeners with rhyme and rhythm. It is the perfect book to teach and review the different shapes and teach awareness of differences and how we might want to avoid judging a pumpkin by its shape.

It's fun fiction! And leads to a gratifying ending. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages as a springboard for essential class discussions about being unique and caring about others. Also included is a Spookley craftivity and word cards for your pocket chart.  Grab this book companion for Spookley, HERE

Understand the life cycle of a pumpkin. Easily foldable booklet so that students see each stage of growth.

Stages include:

1. seeds

2. sprout

3. growing sprout

4. vines and flowers

5. green pumpkin

6. giant, fat pumpkin in the pumpkin patch

Also included are three pages for reference on the 'life cycle of a pumpkin': one black-and-white for students to color, one in color if you wish to display it, and the third one is a graphic organizer that the students can fill in to show that they remember the stages of a pumpkin's life cycle.

The booklet is a fun foldable that students love. After completing it, it guides them through retelling the stages.  Grab this teaching resource Life Cycle of A Pumpkin

All About Pumpkins ... Read. Write. Do. Learn. These pages about pumpkins will engage primary readers in literacy skills, thinking, and learning about pumpkins.

Improve literacy skills and reading achievement with reading passages and writing prompts within a unit of studying pumpkins.

Add these pages to a science corner or literacy station with books and literature about pumpkins. These reading passages and writing prompts can be used for independent practice, small-group instruction, and whole-class unit studies about pumpkins. 

 All About Pumpkins

There are 50 pages:

• reading passages
• comprehension checks
• writing prompts
• drawing and illustrating
• facts about pumpkins
• KWL chart
• Poetry Booklet about Pumpkins
• word study
• label the jack-o’-lantern
• writing sentences
• learning new words
• vocabulary for display
• ABC order
• rhyming words
• math – skip counting- puzzles
• count by 10’s
• count by 5’s
• count by 2’s
• combinations of 10
• tally marks
• Life Cycle of A Pumpkin [anchor chart, cut and paste]
• collecting data about the class pumpkin
• Float or Sink?

Halloween Handouts! Writing Halloween Sentences and Solving Riddles with Multiplication. These handouts are easily assigned for distance learning.

These pages teach and provide some Halloween fun:

• students learn about the 4 kinds of sentences
• students show what they have learned by writing 'Halloween' sentences
• students solve multiplication facts to solve a riddle about Halloween

In this story, the witch and her cat happily fly through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat. Some animals help her and want to ride on the broom. A minor disaster comes, and all the animals come to the rescue. The story is in rhyme, bouncing merrily along, full of fun.

Read this book aloud to your child and choose these reader response pages to enhance the reading experience. 

This book companion is to be used with 

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson.

Focus Skills:

• comprehension questions
• characters in the story
• story events
• word study
• vocabulary cards for your pocket chart
• write and draw
• word work - phonics - rhyming words
• sight words
• diversified instruction

There are 30 pages in this teaching resource to respond to this book. You certainly would not have to do all of them, but you could if you wish. This book companion quickly diversifies instruction.  Yes, I want Room on the Broom book companion.