8.8.D.iii
The Standard
multiple organizational patterns within a text to develop the thesis
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 identify different organizational patterns used in separate parts of one informational text. They explain how those patterns work together to build and support the author’s main claim.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can mark where a text shifts from one pattern to another, such as comparison to cause and effect. They can explain how each pattern adds evidence, context, or reasoning for the author’s claim.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may label the whole text with one pattern and miss shifts between sections. They may also name patterns correctly but fail to explain how each section supports the author’s main claim.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article with two clear sections. Ask them to label each section’s pattern and write one sentence explaining how the patterns work together to support the claim.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up article to arrange, label each section’s pattern, and connect each section to the author’s claim with string.
Ask students to write: Why might an author shift from problem and solution to cause and effect when supporting a claim?
Play Structure Switch by reading short passages while teams identify each pattern and explain its job for the claim.
Analyze a school policy announcement to see how background, causes, effects, and proposed solutions build support for the policy.
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Related Standards
- 5.8.A
infer multiple themes within a text using text evidence;
- 6.7.A
infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence;
- 7.8.D
analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including: the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence, features such as refe...
- 4.9.D.iii
organizational patterns such as compare and contrast;
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