8.T.T.2Expository Techniques Overview

Expectations

• 8.T.T.2.a

  Analyze the development of expository techniques used to present and design content, including multiple main ideas, facts, statistics, key details, information from text features, and a sense of closure. (I)

• 8.T.T.2.b

  Analyze and evaluate how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts. (I)

• 8.T.T.2.c

  This progression ends in 5th grade.

• 8.T.T.2.d

  Apply multiple expository techniques (e.g., main idea, facts, statistics, key details, text features, sense of closure) to enhance writing and engage audiences. (C)

Georgia Milestones coverage

• English Language Arts Grade 8 (EOG) · Texts — Constructing Texts

  Techniques Students analyze and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning.

  about 17% of the test · 10 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

Recognize the main idea(s) or key detail(s) in an expository text that is presented using a specific technique. Recognize how the author provides a sense of closure. Determine key information that is supported by only one of the authors who are writing about the same topic. Determine idea(s) in which two or more authors writing about the same topic disagree. Apply an expository technique to introduce the topic, develop the topic, or provide a sense of closure.

Developing

Describe expository techniques, including multiple main ideas, facts, statistics, key details, information from text features, and/or a sense of closure. Determine a main idea of an expository text and support that main idea with facts, statistics, key details, information from text features, and/or a sense of closure. Evaluate how two or more authors writing about the same topic are similar or different in how they shape their presentations of key information. Apply expository techniques within a paragraph to introduce the topic, develop the topic with an idea, a fact, a statistic, or a key detail, and/or provide a sense of closure. Apply expository techniques within a paragraph to develop the topic with multiple ideas, facts, statistics, and/or key details. Apply expository techniques within a paragraph using text features to enhance writing and engage audiences.

Proficient

Analyze the development of expository techniques used to present and design content, including multiple main ideas, facts, statistics, key details, information from text features, and a sense of closure. Analyze and evaluate how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts. Apply multiple expository techniques (e.g., main idea, facts, statistics, key details, text features, sense of closure) across two paragraphs to enhance writing and engage audiences.

Distinguished

Analyze the development of expository techniques used in multiple texts to present and design content. Apply expository techniques throughout the text to enhance writing and engage audiences.

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

   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 (this standard)

   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.