CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.3
The Standard
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Language Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose words and sentence forms that fit the audience and situation. They notice when classroom language, casual talk, or story language is the better choice.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can share the same idea in a casual conversation and in a clear classroom response. The student can explain why the wording changes and apply that choice when reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think casual expressions are always wrong, or that speech and writing should sound exactly alike. They may change only volume or politeness instead of choosing words and sentence forms for the audience.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Write what you would say to a friend and then to the principal after finding a lost lunchbox. Circle two words you changed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort phrase cards such as “Hey, look!” and “Please look at this” into friend, classroom, and principal audience hoops.
Discuss how you would ask a classmate and a guest teacher for help, then write both requests.
Play Audience Switch by drawing an audience card and changing a given sentence to fit that listener.
Compare a school announcement with a text message about the same event, and list words that fit each audience.
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