Georgia 12.P.AC.3.c

ELA12th GradeText Design

The Standard

Apply knowledge of how mode and genre impact how ideas and information are structured and arranged in texts. (I/C)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Author’s Craft

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students examine how written, spoken, visual, and digital texts organize information differently. They choose and use a structure that fits the genre, purpose, and audience.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can compare a print editorial, podcast script, and infographic, naming how each opens, sequences evidence, uses transitions, and closes. The student can reorganize the same content for two formats and justify each choice.
Common Misconceptions: Students often confuse mode, such as audio or visual, with genre, such as editorial or report. They may force every text into five paragraphs or treat images and sound as decoration rather than structural choices.
How to Assess It: Give students five facts about a local issue. Ask them to create ordered plans for a news brief and a podcast, then explain one structural choice for each.

Lesson moves

Cut apart a print article and podcast transcript, then have teams reorder each and defend their sequence using genre clues.
Ask students to explain how a climate report should change when adapted into a speech for a school board meeting.
Play Structure Swap by giving groups one topic and drawing random genre cards, then awarding points for fitting organization choices.
Compare emergency information on a school website, text alert, and poster, then identify why each version orders details differently.

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