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Rodriguez, Regina Chanel; Rose, Shona; Coneway, Betty – English in Texas, 2017
As state and national curriculum standards continue to change, it is important for teachers to develop a common set of definitions for terms that appear in those standards. This column describes the four modes of discourse--narrative, descriptive, exposition, and persuasion--and links them to a variety of genres students can write in to compose…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Definitions, Discourse Modes