McGregor, a staff developer, speaker, workshop presenter, and professional development specialist, shows teachers how to use concrete objects, art, music, and short samples of text to make specific genres accessible and interesting to students. For each genre--poetry, adventure and fantasy, historical fiction, drama, image reading, informational text, and biography, autobiography, and memoir--she outlines a progression for planning lessons, a lesson with a concrete focus, ways for students to inquire and explore the genre, a sensory exercise using art or music, suggestions for getting students to read about it, quotations, and a bibliography. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)