Georgia 2.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 story elements, informational text features, and parts of an opinion text. They explain how a character, heading, fact, or reason helps readers and fits the author’s purpose. They use these elements in their own short texts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can name the text type and point to a specific element as evidence. They can explain that a heading previews information, a character’s actions shape a story, or a reason supports an opinion.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse the topic with the author’s purpose. They may label opinions as facts or name a text feature without explaining how it helps the reader.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short text and ask: “Circle one text element. Explain how it helps the reader and supports the author’s purpose.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort sentence, heading, character, fact, opinion, and reason cards into story, informational, and opinion groups, then explain each choice.
Read two short texts on one topic and discuss: “Which element helps each author reach the reader?”
Play Element Detective by finding named elements in short passages and earning a point only after explaining each element’s effect.
Examine a cereal box and identify facts, opinions, headings, and pictures, then explain how each part affects shoppers.
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