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Study/ Section 6 / chapter 23
Teaching Genre and Content Literacy: Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction Texts

THIS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH TEACHING WHAT CATAGORIZES LITERATURE.............
 * When working with text of various kinds, our goal is to help students to develop an appreciation and understanding for both Fiction and Nonfiction text. Also we want to help our students to develop informed tastes as readers so that they can learn how to select texts for themselves. Once our students begin to read based on their interests and learn to identify what they are reading by knowledge of the Genre and its elements, they will increase the breadth of their reading experiences and look at texts in a different and wonderful way.
 * 1) Literature can be divided into poetry or pose. Pose can be divided into Fiction or Nonfiction and those can be further divided by genre.
 * 2) Any piece of literature whether poetry or pose can be divided into 3 different ways: Format, Content, and Genre.(see figure 23-1 on page 391)

Students can be taught that we can connect texts by examining their characteristics, and knowing about genres. Once given this knowledge our students will become better learners by knowing how information is organized, and presented, thus leading them to a process that supports comprehension will start to develop. In taking this teaching approach it is important to have a classroom library that is categorized by genre as well as by topic .This will allow you to encourage and require them to read a variety if topics in a variety of genres. With this set up, you can ensure that each student is reading literature that gives them the opportunity to evaluate and identify what they are reading by using the structure you have taught them.