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title: "4.T.T.1: Narrative Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 4.T.T.1: Narrative Techniques Overview

Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 4, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-4.md

## Expectations

- **4.T.T.1.a**: Analyze the use of narrative techniques to present ideas, design texts, and convey information about characters, setting, and plot. (I)
- **4.T.T.1.b**: Describe how the text’s protagonist and antagonist function in the plot, drive the conflict, and contribute to the development of other characters. (I)
- **4.T.T.1.c**: Identify and describe common themes in texts (e.g., good vs. evil) that are revealed through details about characters. (I)
- **4.T.T.1.d**: Compare and contrast the approach to similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from diverse cultures. (I)
- **4.T.T.1.e**: Apply narrative techniques (e.g., character, setting, problem, resolution, and dialogue) to develop a real or imagined experience using descriptive details, clear event sequences, and a conclusion. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- English Language Arts Grade 4 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Techniques Students explain, analyze, and use various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning. (about 13% of the test; 8 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)
- English Language Arts Grade 4 (EOG). Texts — Interpreting Texts. Techniques Students explain, analyze, and use various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning. (about 27% of the test; 16 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**: Identify narrative technique(s) in text, such as character, setting, and/or plot. Identify the text’s protagonist and antagonist. Identify the conflict. Identify a common theme in a text. Identify a similar theme, topic, or pattern of events in two stories, myths, or traditional literature from diverse cultures. Apply a narrative technique to introduce a character, a setting, problem/resolution, or develop event(s) in a story. Use descriptive detail(s) to introduce a character in a developed paragraph. Use descriptive detail(s) to develop a setting. Use dialogue to convey a provided experience/emotion of a character. Use a descriptive detail to develop an event in a developed paragraph. Include the resolution in a story when provided the problem.
- **Developing**: Explain how a provided narrative technique is used to present ideas, design texts, and convey information about characters, setting, and/or plot. Determine specific detail(s) within the text that convey information about characters, setting, and/or plot. Describe how the text’s protagonist or antagonist function in the plot. Determine the detail(s) about character(s) that develop a provided common theme. Identify similar theme(s), topic(s), or pattern(s) of events in at least two stories, myths, or traditional literature from diverse cultures, and show how the authors approach one of these aspects using textual evidence. Develop part of a real or imagined experience by applying a narrative technique. Clearly sequence events in a story when given at least two parts of the sequence. Use one instance of dialogue to further develop a character in a real or imagined experience. Use descriptive details to further develop a character, a setting, or an event(s).
- **Proficient**: Analyze the use of narrative techniques to present ideas, design texts, and convey information about characters, setting, and/or plot. Describe how the text’s protagonist and antagonist function in the plot, drives the conflict, or contribute to the development of other characters in a text. Identify and describe common theme(s) in a text that is revealed through detail(s) about character(s). Compare and contrast the approach to similar themes, topics, and/or patterns of events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from diverse cultures. Develop part of a real or imagined experience by applying more than one narrative technique. Clearly sequence events in a story, including the introduction, problem/resolution, and conclusion, when provided one part of the sequence. Apply more than one instance of dialogue to develop character(s) throughout a real or imagined experience. Use descriptive details to further develop a real or imagined experience that includes character, setting, and events.
- **Distinguished**: Describe with textual support how the text’s protagonist and antagonist function in a plot, drive the conflict, or contribute to the development of other characters in a text. Identify and describe common theme(s) in a text that are revealed through details about characters and support the description with textual evidence. Apply narrative techniques to enhance the ideas shaped through other techniques.

## 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: **Narrative Techniques** Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.T.1.md
- 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 (this standard)**: **Narrative Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings.
- 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.