Georgia 9.P.AC.3.b
The Standard
Apply knowledge of how mode and genre impact what kinds of ideas and information are included in texts. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Author’s Craft
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare how one subject is presented across written, spoken, visual, or digital texts and across genres. They explain why each form includes certain facts, examples, viewpoints, or context.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can compare a news report, infographic, and personal narrative about one event. They identify specific details each includes or leaves out, then connect those choices to audience and purpose.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse mode, such as audio or visual, with genre, such as memoir or news report. They may discuss layout only, or assume omitted details are mistakes rather than deliberate choices.
How to Assess It
- Give students a news brief and a first-person post about the same event. Ask, “Which detail appears in only one text, and why does that form include it?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups storm-detail cards to sort into an infographic, podcast script, or memoir, then have them justify each placement.
Ask students to write: “How would a reporter and a witness describe the same cafeteria incident differently, and why?”
Play Genre Switch by giving pairs a short article to recast as a diary entry, advertisement, or video script.
Compare a school event announcement sent by email, flyer, and social post, then list what each version adds or cuts.
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