HA!
This woman teaching 3rd grade thinks it would be a good idea to have her 3RD GRADERS all research different genres of literature and report on them. That's how they will learn genre.
3rd graders.
I asked her if she has books or things they can look at and compare, you know, like a basket of folktales/myths/fantasy/sci fi/etc. etc. etc.
No, she says. They can just, you know, google about them.
Oh. Have you read a lot in class together so they have some prior knowledge to connect to?
Well, I mean, we read outloud every day, but we don't talk about genre.
Okay, so, then, if you were creating a rubric about what they should know, what would you say would be important? What would you have them compare and contrast? Character types? Settings? Big ideas or themes-- that might be kind of hard for them...What scaffolding would you give them?
Uh, I don't know. They'll just look on google.
Wow.
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