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title: "2.T.T.1: Narrative Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 2.T.T.1: Narrative Techniques Overview

Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 2, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-2.md

## Expectations

- **2.T.T.1.a**: Identify and describe techniques used to craft stories, including characters, setting, major events, and dialogue. (I)
- **2.T.T.1.b**: Identify the major plot events that occur between a problem and solution. (I)
- **2.T.T.1.c**: Identify and describe how characters’ responses to major challenges or events support the central message, lesson, or moral of the story. (I)
- **2.T.T.1.d**: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from diverse cultures. (I)
- **2.T.T.1.e**: Use knowledge of narrative techniques (e.g., characters, settings, events, dialogue) to create texts that recount real or imagined experiences and events with a sense of closure. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

## The same standard across grades

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

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