Georgia 6.T.SS.1

6.T.SS.1 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 6.T.SS.1.a

  Explain how authors modify organizational structures or features to convey meaning, respond to the audience, or achieve specific purposes. (I)

• 6.T.SS.1.b

  Design texts, flexibly employing a variety of text structures and text features to convey information and add style, as appropriate to purpose and audience. (C)

• 6.T.SS.1.c

  Use concept repetition and connected terms to support transitions, clarify the relationship between ideas and information in texts, and increase text cohesion. ...

• 6.T.SS.1.d

  Craft multi-paragraph texts using a coherent structure to organize ideas with an introduction; supporting facts, reasons, details, descriptions, and/or events; ...

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify how an author arranges ideas and explain how that arrangement guides meaning. They choose and use an effective structure when writing their own texts.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students accurately identify structures such as sequence, cause and effect, comparison, and problem and solution. They explain why the structure fits the message and use a clear structure in their own writing.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may name a structure from signal words without checking how the whole text is arranged. They may also mix structures randomly or treat paragraphs as separate ideas with no clear connection.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a short article and ask: “What structure does the author use, how does it shape the message, and where is your evidence?”

1. 01

   Give groups paragraph strips from a short article to arrange, then have them defend their order using transitions and idea connections.

2. 02

   Ask students to explain how changing a cause-and-effect text into chronological order would change what readers notice.

3. 03

   Play a structure sort with short passages labeled sequence, comparison, cause and effect, description, or problem and solution.

4. 04

   Have students organize a school improvement proposal with a problem, supporting evidence, proposed solution, and expected result.

• 7.T.SS.1

  The 7th Grade version of this standard.

• 2.T.SS.1

  Organization Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

• 1.T.SS.1

  Organization Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

• 8.T.SS.1

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.