Georgia 6.P.AC.2

6.P.AC.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 6.P.AC.2.a

  Integrate literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements to appeal to target audiences and achieve specific purposes. (I/C)

• 6.P.AC.2.b

  Craft words and phrases in order to influence the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions of the target audience and achieve a specific purpose. (I/C)

• 6.P.AC.2.c

  Make decisions about sentence structure and syntax in order to accommodate and influence the audience and achieve a specific purpose. (I/C)

• 6.P.AC.2.d

  Organize texts by incorporating specific formats, structures, patterns, and features to influence the audience, facilitate accessibility, and support the text’s...

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What Students Need to Do

Students decide who will read a text and what that reader should think, feel, or do. They choose details, organization, tone, and sentence style to fit that reader and purpose. They revise after viewing the draft from the reader's perspective.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain why a detail, tone, structure, or sentence choice fits a particular reader and purpose. The student can write two clearly different versions of the same message for different readers. Revisions remove confusing details and add information the intended reader needs.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may name a general audience, such as “everyone,” without considering what specific readers know or expect. They may treat craft as decoration rather than purposeful choices about details, tone, structure, and wording. They may change vocabulary but leave the message and organization unchanged.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Write a three-sentence announcement about a canceled field trip for students. Underline one craft choice and explain how it helps that audience.

1. 01

   Give groups sentence strips from a school announcement, then have them reorder and revise the strips for sixth graders or parents.

2. 02

   Ask students to rewrite a warning about a canceled field trip for a friend and a principal, then explain two changed choices.

3. 03

   Play Audience Match: students draw an audience and purpose card, revise one paragraph, and classmates guess both from the craft choices.

4. 04

   Compare a restaurant's children's menu with its dinner menu, then write one item description tailored to each audience.

• 11.P.AC.2

  The 11th Grade version of this standard.

• 9.P.AC.2

  The 9th Grade version of this standard.

• 10.P.AC.2

  The 10th Grade version of this standard.

• 8.P.AC.2

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.