Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.12.R.2.3
The Standard
Evaluate an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s).
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students determine what an author wants readers to think, feel, or do. They analyze choices such as evidence, organization, diction, tone, and omission, then judge how well those choices work for the intended audience.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify primary and secondary purposes, then connect specific choices in structure, evidence, diction, or tone to those purposes. They judge effectiveness with relevant text evidence and attention to the intended audience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a broad purpose, such as “to inform,” without analyzing how the writing serves it. They may judge effectiveness by whether they agree with the author, or assume every rhetorical choice works equally well.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short editorial and ask: “Identify one purpose, analyze one author choice, and judge how well that choice affects the intended audience.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Students annotate a printed opinion column with three colors for purpose, author choices, and likely audience effects.
Ask students to write: “Which author choice most effectively advances the purpose, and what evidence supports your judgment?”
Teams match short passages to purpose cards, then earn points by defending which author choice best supports each match.
Students compare a charity donation page with a government information page on the same issue and evaluate how each addresses its audience.
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Related Standards
- ELA.9.R.2.3
Analyze how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
- ELA.11.R.2.3
Analyze an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in speeches and essays from the Classical Period.
- ELA.10.R.2.3
Analyze an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in historical American speeches and essays.
- ELA.8.R.2.3
Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
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