Literary Genres: Nonfiction - Middle School Literature

Nonfiction is: (choose two answers)

• fictitious

• true

• made up

• factual

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What genre is a story of someone's life?

• article

• autobiography

• biography

• subject-specific nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What genre is a true life story written by the actual person? 

• article

• autobiography

• biography

• subject-specific nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Articles are true, contain facts and are written for: 

• newspapers

• magazines

• online sources

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The author's main purpose of an article is to: 

• persuade

• entertain

• inform

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

Which text feature tells us about images and why they are important? 

• graphs

• captions

• headings

• charts

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What genre has real facts about a specific topic?

• autobiography

• articles

• subject-specific nonfiction

• biography

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Which of the following are nonfiction genres? Choose two answers. 

• online article

• mystery

• science fiction

• biography

• realistic fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5