NY Next Generation ELA 9-10W2

ELAGrades 9–10Text Types and Purposes

The Standard

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards

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What This Standard Means

What Students Need to Do

Students write informative or explanatory texts that introduce and organize complex ideas to reveal important connections and distinctions. They develop the topic with audience-appropriate evidence and useful formatting or media, use precise vocabulary and transitions, maintain an appropriate style, and conclude by explaining the information's significance.

What Mastery Looks Like

A student frames and organizes complex ideas, develops them with sufficient audience-appropriate evidence and useful formatting or media, and analyzes important relationships. Precise vocabulary and transitions create clarity and cohesion while style fits the task and audience. The conclusion follows from the explanation and states its significance.

Common Misconceptions

Students may compile source facts or use complexity as an excuse for unclear prose. They may include information without explaining relevance or relationships.

How to Assess It

Provide a multi-source topic and audience profile. Ask students to plan and write a concise explanation with organized evidence and analysis, precise vocabulary and transitions, useful formatting or media when appropriate, consistent style, and a significant conclusion.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Map concepts, distinctions, evidence, and relationships before drafting.

  2. Ask students what complexity must be preserved and what can be simplified.

  3. Play Information Analysis Sort with relevant and distracting content.

  4. Write a public-facing explanation of a technical or policy issue.

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