4.T.T.2Expository Techniques Overview

Expectations

• 4.T.T.2.a

  Discuss and evaluate techniques used to present and design expository texts, including facts and key details used to support the main idea. (I)

• 4.T.T.2.b

  Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. (I)

• 4.T.T.2.c

  Integrate and classify information from multiple texts on the same topic in relationship to important points and key details. (I)

• 4.T.T.2.d

  Apply expository techniques that clearly introduce a topic, group paragraphs or sections to develop the topic with facts and other information (e.g., definitions, concrete details, quotations), use precise language, and provide a concluding statement or section.

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 These points are shared with other standards, so count them 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 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

Identify the main idea in an expository text. Identify an expository technique the author uses in a text. Identify steps(s) in a procedure, historical event(s), scientific idea(s), or technical concept(s) in a text. Determine an important point(s) shared by two texts. Determine important point(s) or key detail(s) where texts differ. Apply expository technique(s) to introduce a topic. Apply expository technique(s) to provide a concluding statement or section.

Developing

Determine a main idea or key detail(s) in an expository text that is presented using a specific technique. Determine specific fact(s) or key detail(s) within an expository text that support the main idea. Describe a relationship between events, procedures, ideas, or concepts (including what happened and why) in a historical, scientific, or technical text. Demonstrate the relationship between a series of events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a text. Describe how texts are alike or how they are different. When an important point is provided, support that important point with details/evidence from two texts on the same topic. Apply expository technique(s) to develop the topic in a section of the text with fact(s) and/or other information. Use precise language.

Proficient

Evaluate technique(s) used to present and design expository text(s). Determine the main idea of an expository text and support it with fact(s) and/or key detail(s). Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. Integrate and/or classify information from multiple texts on the same topic in relationship to important points and key details. Integrate and classify information from multiple texts on the same topic by using textual evidence from one text to explain the relationship between texts. Apply expository techniques across multiple paragraphs that clearly introduce a topic, develop the topic with facts and other information (e.g., definitions, concrete details, quotations), use precise language, and/or provide a concluding statement or section. Apply expository techniques by using precise language to develop the topic. Group paragraphs or sections to develop the topic.

Distinguished

Identify and evaluate the techniques used to present and design expository texts and support the evaluation with textual evidence. Integrate and classify information from multiple texts on the same topic by using textual evidence from multiple texts to explain the relationship between texts.

The same standard across grades

1. Kindergarten · K.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Identify and use expository techniques to shape understanding.

2. Grade 1 · 1.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Identify and use expository techniques to shape understanding.

3. Grade 2 · 2.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Identify and use expository techniques to shape understanding.

4. Grade 3 · 3.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings.

5. Grade 4 · 4.T.T.2 (this standard)

   Expository Techniques Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings.

6. Grade 5 · 5.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings.

7. Grade 6 · 6.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Analyze and apply expository techniques.

8. Grade 7 · 7.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Analyze and apply expository techniques.

9. Grade 8 · 8.T.T.2

   Expository Techniques Analyze and apply expository techniques.

10. Grade 9 · 9.T.T.2

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

11. Grade 10 · 10.T.T.2

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

12. Grade 11 · 11.T.T.2

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

13. Grade 12 · 12.T.T.2

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