Georgia 1.P.EICC.2

ELA1st GradeEngagement & Intention for Comprehension & Composition

Georgia Standard (Expectation Cluster)

Engagement & Intention Engage in written or spoken dialogue as author and audience for a variety of tasks and purposes, making intentional connections within, between, and beyond texts.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P)

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1.P.EICC.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

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What This Cluster Means

What Students Need to Do

Students share ideas about texts through speaking, listening, drawing, and writing. They choose details that fit their purpose and connect ideas within one text, across texts, or to life.

What Mastery Looks Like

Students take turns speaking and listening, ask relevant questions, and respond to another person’s idea. They connect details across pages, to another text, or to an experience or event.

Common Misconceptions

Students may retell the story instead of making a connection. They may give an unrelated personal story, interrupt a speaker, or respond without using text details.

How to Assess It

After a read-aloud, ask, “What does this story remind you of, and which story detail made you think of it?” Listen for a clear connection and relevant detail.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs picture cards from a familiar book to sort into connections within the story, to another book, or to their lives.

  2. Ask, “How are these two characters alike or different?” Students discuss with a partner, then write or draw one connection.

  3. Play Connection Toss with a soft ball, where each catcher names a text detail and makes a related connection before tossing.

  4. Read a school lunch menu and a food story, then have students explain how the texts connect to choices they make at lunch.

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