Georgia 7.T.T.2.a
The Standard
Analyze expository techniques used to present and design content, including main ideas, facts, statistics, key details, information from text features, and a sense of closure. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students analyze how an informational text presents and organizes its content. They identify the main idea, supporting facts, statistics, key details, text features, and the way the ending provides closure.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify the main idea and separate key details from less useful information. They explain how facts, statistics, text features, and the ending organize information and help readers understand the topic.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat every fact as a key detail or assume the first sentence always states the main idea. They may name a heading, chart, or conclusion without explaining how it helps present the content.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article with a heading, one statistic, and a conclusion. Ask them to identify each feature and explain how it supports the main idea.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a cut-up article and have them arrange its heading, main idea, facts, statistics, key details, and conclusion in a logical order.
Ask students to explain which detail best supports an article's main idea and how the final paragraph gives readers closure.
Play Technique Match by pairing cards showing article excerpts with labels such as statistic, key detail, text feature, main idea, or closure.
Compare a school news post and its infographic, then identify how each uses facts, statistics, headings, and conclusions to inform readers.
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