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title: "9.T.SS.1: Text Organizational Structure (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 9.T.SS.1: Text Organizational Structure

Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 9, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-9.md

## Expectations

- **9.T.SS.1.a**: Analyze the effectiveness of a text’s organizational structure to meet the needs and expectations of the target audience. (I)
- **9.T.SS.1.b**: Craft and organize texts using an appropriate structure and features for mode, genre, purpose, and audience. (C)
- **9.T.SS.1.c**: Guide the audience through texts using transitions between ideas and paragraphs to enhance cohesion. (C)
- **9.T.SS.1.d**: Apply knowledge of text structure and organization to create coherent and cohesive texts with an introduction that guides the focus and captures the audience; purposefully organized and developed supporting facts, reasons, explanations, details, descriptions, and/or events; and a memorable conclusion. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.SS.1: **Organization** Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 1, 1.T.SS.1: **Organization** Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 2, 2.T.SS.1: **Organization** Identify and use organizational structures to craft meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 3, 3.T.SS.1: **Organization** Demonstrate and apply understanding of organizational structures and elements to create coherent and engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 4, 4.T.SS.1: **Organization** Demonstrate and apply understanding of organizational structures and elements to create coherent and engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 5, 5.T.SS.1: **Organization** Demonstrate and apply understanding of organizational structures and elements to create cohesive and engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 6, 6.T.SS.1: **Organization** Analyze and use organizational structures to craft meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.SS.1: **Organization** Analyze and use organizational structures to craft meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 8, 8.T.SS.1: **Organization** Analyze and use organizational structures to craft meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.SS.1.md
- **Grade 9, 9.T.SS.1 (this standard)**: **Organization** Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres.
- Grade 10, 10.T.SS.1: **Organization** Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 11, 11.T.SS.1: **Organization** Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.SS.1.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.SS.1: **Organization** Analyze, evaluate, and use organizational structures and style to shape thoughts across genres. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.SS.1.md

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