10.T.SS.1Text Organization Across Genres

Expectations

• 10.T.SS.1.a

  Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of a text’s organizational structure to meet the needs and expectations of the target audience or serve a specific purpose. (I)

• 10.T.SS.1.b

  Craft and organize texts using an appropriate structure and features for mode, genre, purpose, and audience. (C)

• 10.T.SS.1.c

  Guide the audience through texts using varied transitions, including between paragraphs and text sections, to enhance cohesion. (C)

• 10.T.SS.1.d

  Apply knowledge of text structure and organization to create coherent and cohesive texts with an introduction that guides the focus and captures the audience; purposefully organized and developed supporting facts, reasons, explanations, details, descriptions, and/or events; and a memorable conclusion. (C)

Georgia Milestones coverage

• Literature II (EOC) · Texts — Constructing Texts

  Structure & Style Students analyze and use organizational structures and style to shape ideas and information.

  about 10% of the test · 6 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them once and never add them up per standard.

What mastery looks like

Georgia's Achievement Level Descriptors. The levels are cumulative: each includes the ones before it. Proficient is on grade level.

Beginning

Use a transition to enhance cohesion in a paragraph.

Developing

Explain how a text's organizational structure meets the needs and expectations of the target audience or serves a specific purpose. Determine the appropriate organizational structure for a provided mode, genre, purpose, and/or audience. Use varied transitions between ideas within a paragraph to enhance cohesion. Apply knowledge of text structure and organization to create part of a text by focusing on one of the following: Craft a section of a text using a coherent structure. Revise part of an introduction to guide the focus and capture the audience by addressing the research, question, purpose, and/or audience. Use purposefully organized and developed supporting facts, reasons, explanations, details, descriptions and/or events to increase coherence in one section of the text. Revise part of a conclusion to improve coherence.

Proficient

Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of a text's organizational structure to meet the needs and expectations of the target audience or serve a specific purpose. Craft and organize texts using an appropriate structure and features for mode, genre, purpose, and audience. Guide the audience through texts using varied transitions, including between paragraphs, to enhance cohesion. Apply knowledge of text structure and organization to create a coherent and cohesive text by focusing on one of the following: Craft a plan for a complete text using a coherent structure. Craft a complete introduction that guides the focus and captures the audience by addressing the research question, purpose, and audience. Use purposefully organized and developed supporting facts, reasons, details, explanations, descriptions and/or events to increase coherence in multiple sections of the text. Craft a complete conclusion that contributes to a coherent structure.

Distinguished

Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of a text’s organizational structure in a text where inferences are necessary to determine how the author meets the needs and expectations of the target audience or serves a specific purpose. Guide the audience through texts using varied transitions, including between all paragraphs and text sections to enhance cohesion across a text. Apply knowledge of text structure and organization to create coherent and cohesive texts with an introduction that guides the focus and captures the audience; purposefully organized and developed supporting facts, reasons, explanations, details, descriptions, and/or events; and a memorable conclusion.

The same standard across grades

1. Kindergarten · K.T.SS.1

   Organization Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

2. Grade 1 · 1.T.SS.1

   Organization Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

3. Grade 2 · 2.T.SS.1

   Organization Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

4. Grade 3 · 3.T.SS.1

   Organization Demonstrate and apply understanding of organizational structures and elements to create coherent and engaging texts.

5. Grade 4 · 4.T.SS.1

   Organization Demonstrate and apply understanding of organizational structures and elements to create coherent and engaging texts.

6. Grade 5 · 5.T.SS.1

   Organization Demonstrate and apply understanding of organizational structures and elements to create cohesive and engaging texts.

7. Grade 6 · 6.T.SS.1

   Organization Analyze and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

8. Grade 7 · 7.T.SS.1

   Organization Analyze and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

9. Grade 8 · 8.T.SS.1

   Organization Analyze and use organizational structures to craft meaning.

10. Grade 9 · 9.T.SS.1

    Organization Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres.

11. Grade 10 · 10.T.SS.1 (this standard)

    Organization Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres.

12. Grade 11 · 11.T.SS.1

    Organization Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres.

13. Grade 12 · 12.T.SS.1

    Organization Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres.