Läsförståelsen bland svenska elever sjunker och framförallt uppvisas en betydande skillnad mellan barn med svenska som modersmål, respektive som andraspråk. För att vända en liknande trend som fanns i Australien på 1980-talet utvecklades genrepedagogiken. Genrepedagogik innebär en parallell utveckling mellan språk- och ämneskunskaper och bygger på tre teorier: Vygotskijs sociokulturella perspektiv på lärande, Hallidays systemisk- funktionell grammatik, samt Rotherys och Martins skolgenrer och cykeln för undervisning och lärande. Tanken med arbetssättet är att samtidigt som eleverna lär sig, även lär sig det ämnesspecifika språket metaspråket och på så sätt får alla elever samma förutsättningar att utveckla sin kunskap.     Syftet med denna studie är dessutom att se hur och om de fem tillfrågade lärarna i årskurserna förskoleklass till årskurs tre undervisar med hjälp av genrepedagogiken i ämnet svenska med fokus på skönlitterär läsning. Jag vill se vad de anser sig finnas för fördelar med att jobba med genrepedagogik i sin undervisning. Metoden som har använts i studien är kvalitativa intervjuer.    Resultatet från studien visar att samtliga intervjuade lärares arbete med läsning i skolan varierade radikalt, och att deras erfarenheter och kunskaper om genrepedagogik som arbetsmetod ser olika ut.  De visade sig positiva till arbetssättet och ser fördelar med att eleverna blir mer engagerade i och motiverade till läsning. Dessutom har samspel, stöttning och interaktion en stor plats i deras klassrum. / Reading skills among Swedish students are falling and, above all exhibited a significant difference between children with Swedish as their first language, or as a second language. To change a trend similar to that found in Australia in the 1980s developed the genre pedagogy. Genre Pedagogy implies a parallel development between language and subject knowledge and is based on three theories: Vygotsky's sociocultural perspectives on learning, Hallidays systematic - functional grammar and Rotherys and Martin's school genres and the cycle of teaching and learning. The idea behind this approach is that while students learn, they will even learning the subject-specific language meta-language and in this way all students get the same opportunities to develop their knowledge. The purpose of this study is also to look at how and if the five surveyed teachers in grades preschool to third grade to teach are using the genre pedagogy in the subject Swedish with focus on literary reading. I want to see what they consider to be the advantages of working with genre pedagogy in their teaching. The method I used in this study is qualitative interviews. The results from the study shows that all the five interviewed teachers work with reading in school varied radically, and that their experience and knowledge of the genre pedagogy working method is different. They showed their support for the approach and sees advantages to the students become more engaged in and motivated to read. In addition, interaction, and interaction jacking a big place in their classroom.

The aim of this essay is to examine how teachers work language-oriented by observing how metalanguage is used for text construction in Swedish school subject, and how this is made concrete to be comprehensible. To achieve the aim, the following two questions have been formulated: • Which metalanguage is used for text construction in Swedish school subject? • How does the metalanguage become comprehensible? Observartions was used to achieve the aim of this study. The aim was based on a teacher's pedagogical teacher-led teaching and how she worked with metalanguage and concept development to support pupil’s development of an effective school language. In summary, the results of the aim of this study shows that the metalanguage that were in focus where; recount, expert word, title, environmental events, time words, chronological order, and evaluation /final comment. These were concretized and contextualized by discussing each term and the pupil´s came up with explanations based on their experiences. The teacher guided and raised questions, problematized and raised issues that were discussed again. The metalanguage was also concretized by scaffolding and that was shown mainly through guiding talks and discussions on subject-specific concepts and subject matter, i.e. the study visit of Ica Maxi.