--- title: "5.T.T.2: Expository Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)" code: 5.T.T.2 cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, English Language Arts, 5.T.T.2 subject: ela grades: - grade-5 language: en canonical_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.T.2 md_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.T.2.md alternate_language_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/standards/code/5.T.T.2.md source_url: https://case.georgiastandards.org/ims/case/v1p0/CFDocuments/391c3abe-c1ec-4a4a-a942-c9e152b35102 source_last_changed: 2025-11-14 data_built: 2026-09-18 publisher: Georgia Homeroom, a free public-interest project of Georgia Civic Data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Georgia Department of Education or any school district. up: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-5.md index: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md --- # 5.T.T.2: Expository Techniques Overview Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings. - Subject: English Language Arts - Appears in: Grade 5, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-5.md ## Expectations - **5.T.T.2.a**: Discuss and evaluate techniques used to present and design expository texts, including multiple main ideas, facts, and key details used to support the main idea. (I) - **5.T.T.2.b**: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. (I) - **5.T.T.2.c**: Compare and contrast first and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic using primary and/or secondary sources. (I) - **5.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. (C) ## Georgia Milestones coverage - English Language Arts Grade 5 (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 5 (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 main ideas in an expository text. Identify an expository technique the author uses in a text. Explain an individual, event, idea, or concept in a historical, scientific, or technical text. Explain why a text is a first or secondhand account of an event or topic or explain why a source is a primary or secondary source. Apply expository techniques to introduce a topic. Apply expository techniques to provide a concluding statement or section. - **Developing**: Describe the techniques used to present and design expository texts, including multiple main ideas and facts and key details used to support the main idea. Determine a main idea(s) or key detail(s) in an expository text that is presented using a specific technique. Determine specific fact(s) and/or key detail(s) within an expository text that support the main idea(s). Determine a main idea of an expository text and support that main idea with a fact or key detail. Explain the relationships or interactions between two an individual(s), event(s), idea(s), and/or concept(s) in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. Demonstrate relationship(s) between individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a text. Compare a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic using primary and/or secondary sources. Contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic. Explain how a text would be different if written as a firsthand or secondhand account. Integrate and/or explain information from first and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic using primary and/or secondary sources. Identify detail/evidence from one text that supports an idea from another text or identify details/evidence from texts that support an idea. Apply expository technique(s) to develop the topic in a section of text with fact(s) and other information. Apply expository techniques to group paragraphs or sections to develop a topic. Use precise language. - **Proficient**: Evaluate techniques used to present and design expository texts. Determine the main ideas of an expository text and support the main ideas with fact(s) and/or key detail(s). Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. Compare and contrast first and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic using primary and/or secondary sources. Apply expository techniques across multiple paragraphs that clearly introduce a topic, develop the topic with facts and/or other information, use precise language, and/or provide a concluding statement or section. Apply expository techniques by using precise language to develop the topic. - **Distinguished**: Identify and evaluate the techniques used to present and design expository texts and support the evaluation with textual evidence. Apply expository techniques throughout a text to enhance writing. ## 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 (this standard)**: **Expository Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use expository techniques to shape understandings. - 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: **Expository Techniques** Evaluate and apply expository techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.T.2.md - 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.