Georgia 7.T.T.2.d
The Standard
Apply expository techniques (e.g., main idea, facts, statistics, key details, text features, sense of closure) to enhance writing and engage audiences. (C)
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 write explanations that stay focused on one clear point and support it with accurate facts, numbers, and relevant details. They organize information with useful text features and finish with a closing that helps readers understand the topic.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student writes a focused explanation with accurate, relevant evidence and clear organization. The student uses headings or other text features purposefully and ends with a conclusion that fits the audience and topic.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a broad topic instead of stating a focused main point. They may add facts or statistics without explaining how those details support the point. They may use headings that do not match the sections or end by repeating the opening word for word.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students explain a school issue using a clear main point, two supporting facts, one heading, and a closing sentence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up article to arrange into a heading, main point, evidence, and conclusion, then have them explain their choices.
Students answer which detail best helps a reader understand a sample topic and support their choice with two written reasons.
Play Evidence Sort by having teams place fact cards under relevant, irrelevant, or needs explanation labels for a given main point.
Students use class survey results to create a one-page explanation about homework habits, including a statistic, heading, key details, and conclusion.
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