Georgia 10.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 identify literary, expository, and rhetorical choices in varied texts. They explain how each choice affects a specific audience, supports the author’s purpose, and can be used in their own writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately identify craft choices and support their analysis with specific words or details from the text. They explain the likely audience effect and use similar choices deliberately in their own writing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a device, such as repetition or imagery, without explaining its effect. They may also assume every reader reacts the same way or confuse the author’s purpose with the topic.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short advertisement or editorial paragraph. Ask them to identify one craft choice and explain how it shapes the target audience’s response and supports the author’s purpose.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed speech to cut into sections, then label where the author uses evidence, repetition, appeals, and shifts in tone.
Ask students to explain which single craft choice most influences the audience in a selected passage, using two quoted details.
Play Craft Choice Match by pairing excerpt cards with purpose, audience effect, and technique cards, then require a spoken justification.
Compare two public service announcements on the same issue and write which better reaches teenagers, citing specific visual and language choices.
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