Georgia 5.P.AC.3.b
The Standard
Apply knowledge of how mode and genre impact what kinds of ideas and information are included in texts. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Author’s Craft
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students decide which ideas and information fit a text's mode and genre. They compare text types and explain why writers include some details while leaving out others.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose ideas and details that fit the planned mode and genre. They can explain why a fact, opinion, description, or personal experience belongs or does not belong.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the same details belong in every kind of text. They may also confuse a broad mode, such as informational writing, with a specific genre, such as a news article.
How to Assess It
- Give students a topic and ask them to list three details for a news report and three for a personal narrative. Have them explain one difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups fact cards about a school event to sort into a news article, personal narrative, or advertisement template.
Ask students to explain how writing about a storm would change in a weather report, poem, and diary entry.
Play Genre Match by having teams pair detail cards with text types and defend each match in one sentence.
Compare a restaurant menu, online review, and advertisement to identify which food details each includes and leaves out.
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