Story types and reading styles
In this lesson, you’ll learn all about genre – the type or style of story you’re reading. You’ll learn how stories can be grouped, how we can identify particular features or clues that belong to certain story genres. And you’ll discover how you can use genre to find more stories you’ll love to read – and maybe write too!
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Meet the creators
00:58 What do we mean by story genre?
02:41 Genre clues: how to identify a story genre
03:54 How to find stories you might love
04:54 Final words of advice
05:41 Here's what we've learned
Learning Intentions
1. Learning about story genres and genre clues.
2. Learning about using genre features to develop stories.
3. Learning how to categorise books by genre, and where books might be found in the library.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1. Identified different story genres and some of their features.
2. Experimented with different ways to approach story writing in different genres.
3. Identified ways that books can be categorised by genre and where to search for books in a library or bookstore.
Discussion Questions
PRE-VIDEO:
- What sort of stories do you love? Do you have a favourite type of story to read?
- What sort of things do you usually find in your favourite stories? Why do you like those things?
- What do you usually find on the covers of your favourite books? If you placed a few of your favourite books side by side, would the covers have things in common?
POST VIDEO:
- Ben explained that a genre is a way of grouping stories that have a lot in common together. Do you remember what some of those common things were?
- Karys listed a few different story genres. Can you remember what those were? Can you think of any other story genres that Ben and Karys didn’t list?
- Karys and Ben talked about genre clues, and things we can expect to find when we open a book in our chosen genre.
- What are some of the fantasy genre clues Karys listed? Can you think of any others?
- What are some of the science fiction genre clues Ben listed? Can you think of any others?
- Karys and Ben both talked about ways of finding more stories like the ones you’ve read and loved. Do you remember where they suggested you look?
Curriculum Links
ENGLISH Y3-4
Language:
● Text structure and organisation: AC9E3LA03, AC9E4LA03
Literature:
● Literature and contexts: AC9E3LE01, AC9E4LE01
● Engaging with and responding to literature: AC9E3LE02, AC9E4LE02,
● Examining literature: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE03
● Creating literature: AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05
Literacy:
● Texts in context: AC9E3LY01, AC9E4LY01
● Analysing, interpreting and evaluating: AC9E3LY03, AC9E4LY03, AC9E3LY05,
AC9E4LY05
● Creating texts: AC9E3LY06, AC9E4LY06
LITERACY
Writing:
● Creating texts: Crafting ideas Level 5-6
Reading and Viewing:
● Understanding texts: Comprehension Level 5-6
CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING
Analysing
● Interpret concepts and problems: Level 3
Reflecting
● Transfer knowledge: Level 3
CREATORS
Resources
