Georgia 10.T.T.2
Georgia Standard (Expectation Cluster)
Expository Techniques Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T)
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Expectations in This Standard
10.T.T.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.
- 10.T.T.2.a
Evaluate and critique expository techniques and organizational patterns and their effect; discuss and analyze clarity of information. (I)
- 10.T.T.2.b
Analyze texts with conflicting information or opposing viewpoints and determine where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretations. (I)
- 10.T.T.2.d
Apply expository techniques to develop a cohesive text, organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas, includes multiple and varied types of ...
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What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students examine how writers use definitions, examples, comparisons, facts, anecdotes, and organization to guide readers. They select and use those techniques to suit a particular audience and purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify techniques such as examples, definitions, comparisons, statistics, and anecdotes, then explain how each shapes a reader’s response. They can revise an explanation by choosing techniques that fit a stated audience and purpose.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume adding more facts always makes an explanation stronger. They may name a technique without explaining its effect, or choose anecdotes and examples that do not fit the audience or purpose.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Explain how a phone recommendation algorithm works to a parent, using two different techniques. Label each technique and explain why it fits the audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up explanatory article and have them arrange its definition, example, comparison, and conclusion for the clearest effect.
Compare two introductions about artificial intelligence, then discuss which better fits teenagers and which better fits school board members.
Play Technique Swap by having students replace a statistic with an analogy, example, or anecdote while keeping the same main idea.
Analyze a product guide or public health infographic, then identify how its examples, headings, visuals, and definitions serve its intended users.
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