M8L8 genre-based pedagogy

Implementing genre-based pedagogy

1. Build content knowledge

Start with step one!

The Teaching and Learning Cycle

2. Deconstruct a model text

4. Independent text creation

3. Construct a text together

Adapted from Hamman-Ortiz (2019)

Build backround knowledge on a topic through class activities.

Step 1: Build content knowledge

In this step, teachers and students will...

These can include real-life learning like field trips or in-class readings, videos, and other kinds of multimodal instruction.

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Step 2: Deconstruct a model text

In this step, teachers and students will...

Read a model text of the genre and discuss its purpose (for example: does it describe, narrative, inform, or persuade?)

Analyze structural components of the text, ideally using a graphic organizer that would be revisited in stage 3

Repeat this process with other model texts of the same structure to make students familiar with multiple examples of the genre text

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Step 3: Construct a text together

In this step, teachers and students will...

Fill in a graphic organizer similar to the one used in step 2 when researching and constructing the text together in class.

Incorporate mini-lessons on linguistic features used in the model text. Return to model texts from step 2 to analyze use.

Construct a model text of the genre together as a class.

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Step 4: Independent text creation

Create their own text independently or collaboratively

In this step, students will...

Follow general writing guidelines (like using a process approach)

What's the role of the teacher in this step?

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Continue analyzing model texts to strengthen their writing and build their field of knowledge

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