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📚 Literary Genre Posters | 70+ Genres | Classroom Library Labels & Anchor Charts
Enrich your reading and writing instruction with this set of over 70 Literary Genre Posters — perfect for elementary and middle school classrooms! These posters are designed to help your students recognize, understand, and categorize a wide variety of genres while brightening up your classroom walls.
Use them as anchor charts, bulletin board displays, or labels for your classroom library! PLUS — you’ll receive a Genre Outline & Checklist FREEBIE to help students identify and analyze genres throughout the year.
✨ What’s Included:
You’ll receive 72 literary genre posters, each available in 4 design styles so you can mix, match, and customize your display:
- 🖤 Bold Black Headings with Book Covers
- 🖤 Bold Black Headings without Book Covers
- 🔵 Dotted Headings with Book Covers
- 🔵 Dotted Headings without Book Covers
📖 Genres Included:
Fiction
- Realism
- Contemporary Realistic Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Fantasy
- Traditional Literature (Folktales, Beast Tales, Pourquoi Tales, Trickster Tales, Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and more)
- Science Fiction
- Dystopian
Nonfiction
- Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Expository Texts (Categorical, Recount, Collection, Interview, Report, Feature Article)
- Procedural Texts ("How-To" / Directions)
- Persuasive Texts (Argument, Discussion, Persuasive Essay)
Poetry
- Free Verse, Lyrical, Narrative/Ballad, Epic, Haiku, Limerick, Concrete, Sonnet
Hybrid Texts & More
- Graphica (Comic Strip, Comic Book, Graphic Novel, Manga)
- Mystery, Crime, Adventure, Horror, Humor
- Animal Stories, Sports, Family/Friends/School Stories, Romance, Westerns, Satire
🪄 Perfect For:
✔️ Reading & Writing Bulletin Boards
✔️ Classroom Libraries & Book Bins
✔️ Anchor Charts
✔️ Literature Circles & Genre Studies
✔️ ELA Centers
🎁 BONUS:
Genre Outline & Checklist FREEBIE included — great for reading notebooks or genre tracking throughout the year!
💬 "My students loved referring to these posters during reading workshop — they make genre learning visual, simple, and fun!"
