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title: "10.T.T.2: Expository Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 10.T.T.2: Expository Techniques Overview

Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 10, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-10.md

## Expectations

- **10.T.T.2.a**: Evaluate and critique expository techniques and organizational patterns and their effect; discuss and analyze clarity of information. (I)
- **10.T.T.2.b**: Analyze texts with conflicting information or opposing viewpoints and determine where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretations. (I)
- **10.T.T.2.c**: This progression ends in 5th grade.
- **10.T.T.2.d**: Apply expository techniques to develop a cohesive text, organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas, includes multiple and varied types of information, and adjusts tone for a variety of audiences and purposes. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- Literature II (EOC). Texts — Constructing Texts. Techniques Students evaluate and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning. (about 20% of the test; 12 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)
- Literature II (EOC). Texts — Interpreting Texts. Techniques Students evaluate and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning. (about 23% of the test; 14 points; shared with other standards, so count these points 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**: Explain how an expository technique or organizational pattern is used. Identify conflicting information or opposing viewpoints in text. Apply an expository technique to develop a cohesive text organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas. Maintain a stated tone for an intended audience and purpose.
- **Developing**: Evaluate the effect of expository techniques and/or organizational patterns. Evaluate main ideas in a text and support the main ideas with expository techniques (e.g., facts, statistics, key details, information from text features). Describe conflicting information or opposing viewpoints found in two texts. Apply expository techniques within a paragraph to develop a cohesive text organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas. Apply expository techniques to develop the topic with multiple and varied types of information.
- **Proficient**: Evaluate expository techniques and organizational patterns and their effect. Analyze clarity of information. Analyze two texts with conflicting information or opposing viewpoints and determine where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretations. Apply expository techniques across two paragraphs to develop a cohesive text, organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas, includes multiple and varied types of information, and/or adjusts tone for a variety of audiences and purposes. Adjust tone for an intended audience and purpose.
- **Distinguished**: Evaluate expository techniques, organizational patterns, and their effect, and support that evaluation with textual evidence. Analyze clarity of information and support that analysis with textual evidence. Apply expository techniques strategically throughout a text to develop a cohesive text, organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas, includes multiple and varied types of information, and/or adjusts tone for a variety of audiences and purposes.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Identify and use expository techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.T.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Identify and use expository techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.T.2.md
- Grade 2, 2.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Identify and use expository techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.T.2.md
- Grade 3, 3.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.T.2.md
- Grade 4, 4.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.T.2.md
- Grade 5, 5.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.T.2.md
- Grade 6, 6.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Analyze and apply expository techniques. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.T.2.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Analyze and apply expository techniques. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.T.2.md
- Grade 8, 8.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Analyze and apply expository techniques. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.T.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.T.2.md
- **Grade 10, 10.T.T.2 (this standard)**: **Expository Techniques** Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.
- Grade 11, 11.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.T.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.T.2: **Expository Techniques** Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.T.2.md

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.