Georgia 7.T.SS.1

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

• 7.T.SS.1.a

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

• 7.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)

• 7.T.SS.1.c

  Use varied transition words and phrases to connect ideas, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of text. (C)

• 7.T.SS.1.d

  Craft multi-paragraph texts using a coherent structure with an introduction that guides the focus; supporting facts, reasons, details, descriptions, and/or even...

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What Students Need to Do

Students examine how authors arrange ideas and events to guide readers. They choose and use an organizational pattern that makes their own message clear and effective.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can identify structures such as chronological order, cause and effect, comparison, and problem and solution. They can explain how the structure shapes meaning and use a fitting structure in their own writing.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may identify a structure from one signal word without considering the whole text. They may also organize ideas in the order they thought of them rather than the order that best supports meaning.

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How to Assess It

Give students six details about a school policy change. Ask them to choose a structure, arrange the details, and explain their choice in two sentences.

1. 01

   Give groups paragraph strips from a short article, then have them arrange the strips and defend the structure they created.

2. 02

   Ask students to explain which structure would best present the causes and effects of a later school start time.

3. 03

   Play a structure sort game using topic cards that students match with chronological, comparison, cause and effect, or problem and solution headings.

4. 04

   Compare how a recipe, news report, and product review organize information for different readers and purposes.

• 6.T.SS.1

  The 6th 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.