Georgia 4.T.T.4

4.T.T.4 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 4.T.T.4.a

  Discuss and explain techniques used to present and design different types of poetry, including free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick. (I)

• 4.T.T.4.b

  Apply poetic techniques to produce poetry and engage audiences that use a predetermined rhyme scheme to achieve an intended effect. (C)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify imagery, repetition, rhyme, rhythm, figurative language, and line breaks in poems. They explain how these choices affect meaning, mood, or emphasis, then use them deliberately in their own poetry.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a short poem, students can name a technique, cite the exact words or structure, and explain its effect. In an original poem, they can use at least two techniques and explain why each fits the intended meaning or mood.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may label any repeated sound as rhyme or confuse a poem’s topic with its mood. They may identify a simile or repetition but say only that it makes the poem better, without explaining the effect. Some force rhymes into their writing even when the meaning becomes unclear.

04

How to Assess It

Post this poem: “Rain taps the window. / Tap, tap, tap. / The playground waits, / a silver empty sea.” Ask students to identify one technique, copy the evidence, and explain how it shapes mood or meaning.

1. 01

   Give pairs a poem cut into line strips, then have them rearrange line breaks and compare how each version changes emphasis.

2. 02

   Read two versions of a stanza and ask, “Which use of repetition creates the stronger mood, and what words prove it?”

3. 03

   Play Technique Match: students pair poem-line cards with cards labeled imagery, rhyme, repetition, simile, metaphor, or personification.

4. 04

   Analyze a song chorus or advertising jingle, then explain how repetition and sound patterns make one message memorable.

• 2.T.T.4

  Poetic Techniques Identify and use poetic techniques to shape understanding.

• 5.T.T.4

  The 5th Grade version of this standard.

• K.T.T.4

  Poetic Techniques Identify and use poetic techniques to shape understanding.

• 3.T.T.4

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.