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

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

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

## Expectations

- **4.T.T.4.a**: Discuss and explain techniques used to present and design different types of poetry, including free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick. (I)
- **4.T.T.4.b**: Apply poetic techniques to produce poetry and engage audiences that use a predetermined rhyme scheme to achieve an intended effect. (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 the rhyme scheme or type(s) of poem(s).
- **Developing**: Identify a technique used to present and design a type of poetry, including free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, or limerick. Apply a poetic technique to produce poetry that uses a predetermined rhyme scheme.
- **Proficient**: Explain how a technique(s) is used to present and/or design a type of poetry, which can include free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and/or limerick. Apply poetic technique(s) to produce poetry and engage audiences that use a predetermined rhyme scheme to achieve an intended effect.
- **Distinguished**: Explain how a technique(s) is used to present and/or design a type of poetry, which can include free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and/or limerick and support that explanation with textual evidence.

## The same standard across grades

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

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