Georgia 1.P.AC.1.a
The Standard
Identify, apply, and analyze the literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements in texts, explaining or evaluating how specific elements affect the target audience and support the text’s purpose. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Author’s Craft
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell whether a text is a story, an information text, or an opinion. They find elements such as characters, facts, or reasons and explain how those elements help the author’s purpose and reader.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly identify a text as literary, informational, or opinion. They point to a character, fact, or reason and explain how it helps entertain, teach, or persuade the reader.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every text tells a story or that any personal statement is an opinion. They may name a character, fact, or reason without explaining how it helps the reader.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short text and ask: “Is this a story, information text, or opinion text? Name one clue and tell how it helps the reader.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three short texts and picture cards showing characters, facts, and reasons, then have them match each card to its text.
Read a short text aloud and ask, “What does the author want the reader to think, learn, or feel? What clue helped you?”
Play Text Detective by showing brief passages and awarding a point for naming the text type, one element, and its job.
Examine a cereal box, storybook, and classroom rule poster, then identify how each uses words or pictures for its audience.
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