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Writing Strategy: Parody

Teaching Tips: Writing Parodies Across the Curriculum
William P. Bintz

A parody is a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule. The author describes and reports on an instructional lesson that was designed and implemented to help students write parodies across the curriculum. (PDF download)

Bintz, W.P. (2011, April). Writing Parodies Across the Curriculum. The Reading Teacher, 64(7), 511–514. doi: 10.1598/RT.64.7.4