2.9.D.iii
The Standard
organizational patterns such as chronological order and cause and effect stated explicitly
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students decide whether an informational text presents events in time order or links a cause to a result. They use signal words and stated details to explain their choice.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly name how an informational paragraph is organized. They point to signal words and details that show time order or explain why something happened.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse the order ideas appear on the page with the order events happened. They may also treat any two nearby events as cause and effect, even when one did not make the other happen.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph about a seed growing. Ask them to label it time order or cause and effect, then underline two details that prove their answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards from a simple process, then have them arrange the cards and explain the order using first, next, and last.
Read two short paragraphs and ask, “Is the author showing when events happened or why something happened?” Students cite one clue.
Play a sorting game where students place paragraph cards under Time Order or Cause and Effect, then check answers with a partner.
Examine a weather report and a simple recipe, then identify which one explains causes and which one presents steps in order.
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Related Standards
- 1.9.D.iii
organizational patterns such as chronological order and description with adult assistance;
- 5.9.D.iii
organizational patterns such as logical order and order of importance;
- 4.9.D.iii
organizational patterns such as compare and contrast;
- 3.9.D.iii
organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution;
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