Library Genre Game – Choose Your Own Genre Activity – Middle School Library

Description

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS INTERACTIVE GENRE ACTIVITY:

• Recommended for: Grades 4-7
• Editable? YES, all text is editable.
• Duration: 1-2 class periods (45 minutes each)
• Formats: Google or PowerPoint

IS THIS A GOOD LIBRARY SUB ACTIVITY?

YES! As long as your students can access the game via Google Classroom or PowerPoint, subs can certainly use this activity!

Directions are included within the activity, and the game is 100% student-directed.

FOR THIS INTERACTIVE LIBRARY GENRE GAME, YOU WILL NEED:

• PowerPoint OR Google™ Slides
• student computers or tablets
• ability to print and copy a one-page PDF

THIS INTERACTIVE LIBRARY GENRE GAME INCLUDES:

• 85 slides (all text and headers are editable)
• All slides are in both PPT and Google™ Slides versions
• Crossword puzzle and answer key (2 pages total)
• Directions for teacher or librarian (1 page)

INCLUDES SIX COMMON LIBRARY BOOK GENRES:

• Mystery
• Fantasy
• Science Fiction
• Realistic Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Adventure

STUDENTS WILL ALSO LEARN OR REVIEW LITERARY TERMS:

• detective (amateur and professional)
• protagonist, antagonist, hero, villain
• world-building, plot twist, trilogy, spin-off, series
• authenticity, importance of research in historical fiction
• setting, near-future, distant future, speculative fiction
• problem fiction
• character, fiction, nonfiction, genre

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