Georgia 11.P.ST.2
Georgia Standard (Expectation Cluster)
Author, Audience, & Purpose Interpret and construct texts by developing and applying knowledge of the strategies and techniques authors use to accommodate the target audience and achieve the text’s purpose.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P)
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Expectations in This Standard
11.P.ST.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.
- 11.P.ST.2.a
Develop and apply knowledge of author, audience, and context to discern and establish the purpose of texts being interpreted or constructed and to evaluate the ...
- 11.P.ST.2.b
Draw from knowledge of author, audience, and context to discern and establish a clear point of view or unique perspective when interpreting and constructing tex...
- 11.P.ST.2.c
Draw from knowledge of how authors consider context and audience to determine which information and ideas to highlight, which text design is most accessible, wh...
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify who a text addresses and what response the author wants. They explain how evidence, tone, structure, and language fit that audience and purpose. They make similar choices in their own texts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify the likely audience and purpose, then support that reading with details from the text. The student can adapt evidence, tone, language, and structure when writing for a specific situation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students confuse the topic with the purpose and call the audience "everyone." They name techniques without explaining their effects. They may change vocabulary but ignore evidence, tone, and organization when adapting a text.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Rewrite a school parking announcement for new student drivers. Underline two choices you made and explain how each suits the audience and purpose.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two printed versions of the same message, then have them highlight choices involving evidence, tone, language, and structure.
Ask how a principal's phone policy message should change for students, parents, and staff, then have students defend three specific changes.
Play Audience Switch: teams draw audience and purpose cards, revise a four-sentence message, then classmates identify both.
Compare a company's product page with its customer apology, then analyze how each text seeks a different response.
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