Reading: Genre

	Genre
	Teaching Genre [Ppt file] A PowerPoint presentation for explaining genre. Suitable from P6/7 to S1/2. This is a download from www.abernet.org.uk The author is Iona McPherson.
TR	Power Readers This website highlights some of the best books published recently for young people aged 11-14. The books have been arranged by genre.
TR	Genre Stories Match the extract to the genre.
TR	Read All About It A complete unit of work on investigating newspapers.

	Types of Text
TR	'Types of Text' Factsheets Factsheets: how to tell whether a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive.
	'Types of Text' Quiz Interactive Quiz : designed to test knowledge and understanding of different text types and the main differences between them.
	'Types of Text' Game Quiz based game: designed to allow pupils to recognise different types of text and recognise why they are written in different way.
	'Types of Text' Worksheets Write your own text: an exercise to enable pupils to produce their own texts using question guides to help them.