Spring 2025      Volume 53, Number 2

Blended Genres: Pairing Picturebooks and Poems Across the Curriculum
By William P. Bintz

Document: Article  

Introductory Paragraph:  This article reports on a classroom-based, action research project conducted by a teacher educator in literacy education in a graduate course entitled Reading and Writing across the Content Areas. The purpose of the project was to actively engage graduate students, all of whom were pre-service and in-service teachers, in developing and implementing blended genres across the curriculum. It begins by situating blended genres within the traditional notion of paired text as a curricular resource and instructional strategy to support the process of intertextuality. It provides a brief overview of the course-related project, followed by an introduction to the concept of blended genres as rooted in paired text, but a new and innovative way to develop paired text. It shares examples of blended genres and samples of instructional strategies that graduate students developed and implemented in their own, a friend’s, or a colleague’s classroom at different grade levels and across different content areas. It ends with student reflections on the whole experience and concluding thoughts and questions for future research on blended genres.

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.33600/IRCJ.53.2.2025.22

Page Numbers:   22-31