Georgia 2.P.EICC.4

2.P.EICC.4 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 2.P.EICC.4.a

  Establish a purpose and goals for writing and identify a target audience. (C)

• 2.P.EICC.4.b

  Plan how to organize the text by selecting modes, genres, and structures that will achieve the purpose and meet the needs of the target audience. (C)

• 2.P.EICC.4.c

  Generate ideas for content by assessing prior knowledge, gathering information from texts, and engaging in discussions with others. (C)

• 2.P.EICC.4.d

  Link ideas and information to the organization plan, highlighting ideas and information that are most relevant, useful, and impactful. (C)

• 2.P.EICC.4.e

  Construct an initial draft by integrating ideas and information; selecting words, phrases, and sentences; and incorporating craft techniques that will best achi...

• 2.P.EICC.4.f

  Evaluate the text’s effectiveness based on self-review or feedback from others, determining whether the text matches the purpose and goals for writing. (C)

• 2.P.EICC.4.g

  Make changes to the text based on self-evaluation or external feedback, revising the organization, ideas, information, word choices, and craft techniques in ord...

• 2.P.EICC.4.h

  Edit the text, ensuring it adheres to the conventions of written language. (C)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students write stories, explanations, opinions, and useful messages for different readers. They plan, draft, reread, revise ideas, and edit spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students choose a useful planning method and write a clear draft for a named purpose and reader. They use feedback or a checklist to improve ideas, organization, word choice, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think a first draft is finished writing. They often treat revising as correcting spelling only, or forget to adjust details and word choice for the intended reader.

04

How to Assess It

Ask students to write directions for making a sandwich. Collect a simple plan, a draft with one marked revision, and a final copy with spelling and punctuation edits.

1. 01

   Use a picture sequence to plan a story, draft it, then add one detail with a sticky note before editing.

2. 02

   Compare two thank-you notes, one to a friend and one to the principal, and discuss how word choice changes for each reader.

3. 03

   Play Revision Relay: partners draw a card asking them to add dialogue, clarify an event, replace a vague word, or fix punctuation.

4. 04

   Write directions for a classroom job, ask a classmate to follow them, then revise any step that caused confusion.

• 4.P.EICC.4

  The 4th Grade version of this standard.

• 9.P.EICC.4

  The 9th Grade version of this standard.

• 1.P.EICC.4

  The 1st Grade version of this standard.

• 5.P.EICC.4

  The 5th Grade version of this standard.