7th grade STAAR genre quiz

Purpose: Read to perform

• Poetry

• Drama

• Procedural

• Persuasive

Purpose: Read to be entertained

• Expository

• Procedural

• Persuasive

• Fiction

Purpose: Read to gain information or insight

• Literary Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Poetry

• Drama

Purpose: Read to gather information

• Drama

• Poetry

• Expository

• Fiction

Purpose: Read to learn how to do something

• Persuasive

• Procedural

• Fiction

• Drama

Purpose: Read to make decisions

• Drama

• Expository

• Procedural

• Persuasive

Purpose: Read to experience rich language and emotion

• Poetry

• Drama

• Expository

• Procedural

When reading drama, you must

• Remember important factual details

• Pay attention to stage directions

• Remember and summarize details

• Use text features

When reading fiction, you must

• manage technical vocabulary

• interpret graphics

• understand relationships between plot, characters, and setting

• recognize fact and opinion

When reading literary nonfiction, you must

• understand how dialogue makes meaning

• recognize missing information

• determine feasibility

• read from beginning to end