Fountas & Pinnell Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction, 1st edition
Published by Pearson (October 31, 2012) © 2012
- Irene C Fountas Lesley University
- Gay Su Pinnell The Ohio State University
Paperback
Title overview
Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction and Genre Study Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking are comprehensive tools that you can use to explore fiction and nonfiction genres with your students during interactive read-aloud, Reader's workshop, Writer's workshop, guided reading lessons, shared reading, and intervention lessons. The prompts in these ready-reference flip charts are designed to help teachers guide students' inquiry toward explicit understandings of the characteristics of genres. Each prompting guide contains precise language for teaching readers how to focus their thinking and understanding of genres through inquiry.
In the Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction, Fountas and Pinnell have organised fiction prompts by genre as well as by literary elements and structure. Help you and your students lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy exploration and an understanding of the following genres:
- Contemporary Realistic Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Traditional Literature
- Folktales
- Fairy Tales
- Fables
- Legends
- Epics
- Ballads
- Myths
- Modern Fantasy
- Animal Fantasy
- Low Fantasy
- High Fantasy
- Science Fiction