Georgia 11.T.T.2.a
The Standard
Evaluate and critique expository techniques and organizational patterns and their effect; evaluate clarity of information. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify how an informational text presents and organizes ideas. They judge whether those choices help readers understand the information, then support that judgment with evidence from the text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately identify patterns such as cause and effect, comparison, chronology, and problem and solution. They use specific details to judge whether the writer’s choices make ideas clear and convincing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a pattern without explaining how it shapes understanding. They may confuse a topic’s difficulty with unclear writing, or assume every text follows one pattern throughout.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short editorial and ask: Identify its main organizational pattern, cite one structural clue, and explain whether the pattern makes the information clear.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut apart a short article, have groups reorder its paragraphs, then compare their sequence with the author’s organization and explain each choice.
Ask students to write which organizational pattern best explains teen sleep research and defend their choice with two reasons.
Play a pattern sort using passage cards labeled chronology, comparison, cause and effect, and problem and solution, requiring evidence for every match.
Compare two public health webpages on the same issue, then decide which one presents information more clearly for its intended audience.
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