Think aloud with a genre detective
Hold up a book and think out loud: "The bear wears a hat and talks. Bears can't do that, so this is fantasy." Then let partners try the next one. A worksheet afterward has kids name the genre and the clue that proved it.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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