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Get started with genre instruction in your ELA classroom with these engaging fiction and nonfiction genre anchor charts. Featuring clear language, eye-catching graphics, and student-friendly definitions, these reading anchor charts are perfect for any literacy focus wall.

This set includes only the fiction and nonfiction genre anchor charts.

✨ For the complete collection of 28 genre anchor charts, explore the comprehensive Reading Genre Anchor Charts resource.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

This set includes the fiction and nonfiction genre anchor charts in the following formats:

• Full-Size Anchor Chart (8.5” x 11”)
  Color and black & white options

• Half-Size Anchor Charts (5” x 7”)
  Color and black & white options; perfect for student notebooks or smaller spaces

• Fill-in-the-Blank Anchor Chart & Note-Taking Guide
  Black & white, available in both full-size and half-size

• Editable Anchor Chart
  Customize definitions and key features in PowerPoint or Google Slides™

Note: Only plain text, including definitions and key features, is editable. Graphics, headings, titles, and border colors can’t be modified.

• Digital Fill-in Template
  Ideal for Easel activities to enhance student participation

WHY USE GENRE ANCHOR CHARTS?

Strengthen reading skills by helping students actively identify fiction and nonfiction elements. With a clear understanding of these two foundational genres, students are set up to explore more specific genres with confidence.

WAYS TO USE THIS RESOURCE

• Display & Reference: Use on focus walls, interactive notebooks, or literacy centers.
• Student Engagement: Let students fill in the blanks or take notes on each genre’s elements.
• Customization: Tailor the editable version to meet your students’ needs.
• Long-Term Use: Print, laminate, and use these charts year after year.
• Digital Integration: Incorporate the digital versions for seamless mini-lessons or virtual learning.

WHO IS THIS RESOURCE FOR?

Perfect for teachers seeking a clear, ready-to-use tool to teach the elements of fiction and nonfiction. Designed specifically for elementary students who need a strong foundation in genre types.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to me at samantha@sporesources.com. I am always happy to help!

Created by Samantha McNally | ©SPO Resources

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Create an engaging learning space where genre exploration is easy and fun with these fiction and nonfiction genre anchor charts for your ELA classroom!

This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

Author's Purpose Interactive Activity | Reading Comprehension | PIED

About This Resource

★ Author's Purpose Interactive Flip Card Activity

★ Interactive Activity

★ 10 pages

★ Suitable for Middle and High School Students

This resource includes:

★ Teacher Directions Page

★ 2 Author's Purpose Flip Card Sheets (contains 9 Flip Card Text Boxes on each Sheet)

★ 2 Author's Purpose for Writing Sheets

★ Colorful Bulletin Board Task Display Page (for this activity)

★ 2 Rubrics (to score the activity)

★ Answer Keys

In this engaging and interactive activity, students can work in pairs or independently to read 18 short Author's Purpose descriptions (or texts) and determine the author's intended purpose for writing each one. Students will decide whether the examples reflect the purpose to Persuade, Inform, Entertain, or Describe. They will then cut out Author’s Purpose Word Flip Cards and glue them onto the text boxes that best match the author’s purpose for each piece of text.

This resource also includes two rubrics for scoring the Author’s Purpose Flip Card Charts! One rubric is designed for use when assigning the activity as a pair task, and the other is for independent work. Additionally, a visually appealing Bulletin Board Task Display Page is included, making it easy to showcase students’ completed work right away!

Step-by-Step Teacher Instructions with Images Included!

You’ll have everything you need to score your students’ responses and showcase their work right away using the included Bulletin Board Task Display Page and Rubrics! Best of all, there’s no preparation required—YAY!

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This simple, daily reading response notebook is the perfect digital tool to get kids to write about their reading! The set up is perfect for fiction and nonfiction books, clickable links make it easy for students to navigate. Google Slides and Power Point versions included!

Included in this download

• A Google Slides version of this Reading Response Journal
  • Multiple Covers with and without stickers, where students can type their name
  • A clickable Table Of Contents
  • Student Response Sheet with interactive writing checklist

*to see what all is included in the journal watch the preview

• An editable PowerPoint with directions on how to edit the Google Slides
• PNG files to use in Seesaw
• A printable PDF version

*These are not for commercial use and are to be used with your online classroom only.

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Sometimes it feels like teaching young children how to write an essay is impossible. The My Essay Writing Lapbook makes this process so much easier. Students will learn how to make an Essay Writing plan, find a powerful lead, and write an essay using this Lapbook. The lapbook is a fun and interactive way for kids to organize their thinking process.

Included in this Lapbook is the following:

-4 different 4 + 1 Square Writing templates. Each template is for a different types of writing (narrative, fictional, comparing stories, comparing characters, persuasive, & informational).

Lapbook Contents:

-Cover Page

-(3) Interactive Writing Checklists

- Interactive Powerful Leads Spin Wheel (one premade and one blank for personalization).

-Interactive Transition Words according to color templates(one premade and one blank for personalization).

-Powerful Synonym Chart (Blank).

-Transition Words Interactive templates (3 premade and 3 blank for personalization).

- Writing Checklists templates (3 premade and 3 blank).

- 2 Model Essay Plans (Color coded).

- 2 Model Essays that accompany the plans (color coded).

- Writing Process Chart and Spelling Word Chart (Blank).

Suggestions and Instruction Guide with pictures included. All printables are in black and white.

Items not included are: file folder, tape, construction paper, and brass brad.

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Introduce your students to persuasive writing with this NO PREP Persuasive Writing LESSON! Integrated with GOOGLE SLIDES for you to effortlessly introduce persuasive writing! Complete with both DIGITAL & PRINT INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS! This lesson is ideal for SAVING TIME and keeping students ENGAGED.

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✏️ Google Slides PowerPoint (Teaching Slides) for Introducing Persuasive Texts

✏️ Digital Interactive Notebook Including 8 Activities

✏️ PDF Printable Black & White Interactive Notebook Including 12 Activities

✏️ Self-Grading Class & Student Quizzes

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Graphic organizers are helpful as a visual aid when students are writing.

-Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

-Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas

-Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer:

-Introduction

-1st, 2nd & 3rd reason you disagree

-Counterargument with 3 opposing views

-Rebuttal to opposing views

-Conclusion

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

The Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer is in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

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Working on nonfiction text features in your reading / ELA classes? This packet of printables will give your students extra practice in identifying those important text features! With this packet, you get: ★ Mini-book notes for interactive notebooks. Simply, print cut apart, and staple together to make a ¼ page sized booklet that can be glued into notebooks, kept in a bag or folder, or placed on a keyring to use as flashcards for a study aid. Have students write definitions of each feature, and how the feature is useful on the cards. ★ Two cut and paste pages to match the text features to their definitions. ★ Two passages with blank spaces to label the included text features. ★ Two Text Feature Scavenger Hunt pages – one for textbooks and one for magazine or newspaper articles. ★ A text feature chart to use with the included passages, or any other article or section from a textbook. ★ Three nonfiction passages with MC and Short answer questions that refer to the text features in the passages. ★ Keys to the worksheets that are specific to the passage given, or to the worksheets dealing with terminology. Buy the Bundle and SAVE!!!! Nonfiction Text Features Mini Unit Bundle Individual Files: Nonfiction Text Features Powerpoint - Editable Nonfiction Text Features Task Cards Nonfiction Text Features Unit Worksheets Nonfiction Text Features Posters Nonfiction Text Features Test - editable in Power Point

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This special education adapted book teaches students what a verb is and explores actions that students engage in routinely. Students will engage with this life skills activity by matching real pictures to each page.

Have students cut and paste for single use or laminate and velcro for repeated use.

Dive into the fairy tale genre with this free PDF, featuring both a fairy tale genre poster and anchor chart! Perfect for classroom displays or literacy focus walls, this resource includes student-friendly definitions, engaging graphics, and essential fairy tale characteristics.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

This free resource includes both a fairy tale genre poster and anchor chart in the following formats:

★ Full-Size Poster (8.5” x 11”)➜ Available in color and black & white

★ Full-Size Anchor Chart (8.5” x 11”) ➜ Available in color and black & white, highlighting key features of the fairy tale genre

★ Fill-in-the-Blank Anchor Chart & Note-Taking Guide ➜ Includes full-size and half-size options in black & white for ink-saving, easy printing

★Half-Size & Mini-Size Options ➜ Print two per page (anchor chart) or four per page (poster); ideal for student notebooks or smaller displays

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⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is the best freebie I have ever seen! My students are all Special Education. They love colorful art. To save ink and paper I laminate or put these kind of resources in page protectors. One of the IEP goals we work on weekly is main events of a story. This helped cover the IEP goals and the classroom objectives all in one. Thank you so much!” -Andrea S. 2nd grade

⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students glued this anchor chart in their ELA notebooks and loved referring back to it throughout our fairy tales unit." -Lindsey B. 4th grade

⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Colorful and fun posters that my students enjoyed for reference. Love the way it looks in the classroom, too." -Cindy G. Kindergarten

Looking for the full set of 28 genres? Explore these complete resources:

⭐ Reading Genre Posters — Perfect for classroom displays and word walls, with vibrant visuals for each genre.

⭐ Reading Genre Anchor Charts & Interactive Templates — Dive deep into each genre with detailed definitions, key features, and student note-taking guides.

Try another genre freebie to sample these resources:

⭐ Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Genre Posters Freebie

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to me at samantha@sporesources.com. I am always happy to help!

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Bring the magic of fairy tales to life in your classroom with these engaging genre resources!

Studying Restart? Don't know where to start? We got you covered. This flip book goes through all chapters of the book. It also include a character map and author information to help your students successfully navigate through the text. Answer key is included and the questions are easy to answer while reading the novel or after the book is done. Easy to use and easy to grade. It makes a great study guide for students.

Graphic organizers can be helpful in being visual aids when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Bubble maps are used to display two different main ideas, their similarities, and their differences.

I hope your students/children enjoy this bubble map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a bubble map.

Bubble map is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

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This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

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Graphic organizers can be helpful in being visual aids when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Concept maps are used to display a main idea within the concept and the different ideas that branch out from the main idea.

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

Concept map is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Personification Figurative Language Interactive Notebook and Student Activity Set

Personification Meaning, Examples, Purpose, and Using Personification in Writing

Help students understand personification and how to use it to improve their writing with this great set.

This personification set includes individual, whole class, and cooperative practice activities. See the complete personification product preview!

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This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

Graphic organizers can be helpful in being visual aids when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Venn Diagrams show the relationship between two ideas. A venn diagram can have two or more circles. When the circles overlap, the venn diagram shows the similarities between the two or more ideas. In the spaces where the circles do not overlap, it shows the differences between the two or more ideas.

I hope your students/children enjoy this compare & contrast by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a Venn Diagram.

Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

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Hyperbole Figurative Language Interactive Notebook and Student Activity Set- A great way to teach students incorporate hyperbole into their writing!

Hyperbole Meaning, Examples, Purpose, and Using Hyperbole in Writing

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