Georgia 2.T.T.1.e
The Standard
Use knowledge of narrative techniques (e.g., characters, settings, events, dialogue) to create texts that recount real or imagined experiences and events with a sense of closure. (C)
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 write real or imagined stories with characters, a setting, and events in a clear order. They add dialogue or descriptive details and finish with a clear sense of closure.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students create a focused story with characters, a clear setting, connected events, and an ending. They use dialogue or details to help readers understand what happens and how characters respond.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list events without a clear order or ending. They may write dialogue without quotation marks, change settings unexpectedly, or describe characters without showing what they do or say.
How to Assess It
- Give students this prompt: “Write about a character who loses something and finds it. Include a setting, three ordered events, dialogue, and an ending.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs character, setting, and problem cards, then have them arrange picture cards into a beginning, middle, and ending.
Read a short story and ask, “How do the character’s words and actions help us understand the problem and ending?”
Play Story Relay, with each student adding one sentence that includes a character action, setting detail, event, dialogue, or closure.
Have students recount a real school event, such as a fire drill, using ordered events, one spoken line, and a closing sentence.
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