Georgia 4.T.T.2.b
The Standard
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. (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 key events, steps, ideas, or concepts in an informational passage. They connect what occurs to reasons or causes and support their explanation with specific text details.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can name the key event, process, idea, or concept and explain how or why it occurs. They support the explanation with accurate details from the passage.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may retell every detail without explaining causes or reasons. They may copy sentences instead of making connections, or add facts from memory that the passage does not support.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage about erosion. Ask, "What happens to a riverbank during erosion, and why? Support your answer with two details from the passage."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event and cause cards from a short science text, then have them match and connect the cards with yarn.
Ask students to write: What happened, why did it happen, and which sentence best supports your explanation?
Play Evidence Match by having teams pair explanation cards with supporting details from a historical passage.
Read appliance instructions and have students explain what each step does and why completing the steps in order matters.
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