Georgia 6.T.T.1.a

ELA6th GradeNarrative Techniques

The Standard

Describe how narrative techniques are used across the text to develop plot, characters, and setting. (I)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find narrative techniques used in different parts of a story. They explain how those choices build events, reveal characters, and establish or change the setting.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students identify techniques such as dialogue, pacing, description, and flashback in several parts of a text. They connect specific examples to changes in events, characters, or the reader’s understanding of place.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name dialogue or description without explaining its effect. They may also discuss only one scene, confuse plot events with techniques, or make claims without citing details.
How to Assess It: Give students a short story excerpt and ask: Identify one narrative technique, cite an example, and explain how it shapes the plot, character, or setting.

Lesson moves

Give pairs color tabs to mark dialogue, description, pacing, and flashback in a short story, then label each technique’s effect.
Ask students to write which technique most changes their understanding of a character and support the answer with two moments from the text.
Play a card sort matching story excerpts to techniques and effects, then have teams defend one match the class might question.
Compare a story scene with its film version, noting how each uses pacing, dialogue, and setting details to shape the audience’s response.

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