Georgia 6.P.AC.2.a
The Standard
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)
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 choose and combine literary, explanatory, and rhetorical techniques to reach a specific audience. They use choices such as anecdotes, facts, examples, reasoning, word choice, and calls to action to meet a clear purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students combine techniques such as anecdotes, facts, examples, reasoning, and calls to action in one focused piece. Their choices fit the intended audience and purpose, and they can explain why each choice works.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat literary, explanatory, and rhetorical techniques as separate forms that cannot be combined. They may change only vocabulary for an audience while ignoring evidence, structure, and tone. Some rely on strong opinions without facts or reasoning.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Write six sentences urging classmates to reduce cafeteria waste. Include and label an anecdote, a fact with explanation, and a call to action.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups technique cards labeled anecdote, fact, example, reasoning, and call to action, then build a short message for a named audience.
Compare two openings about later school start times, then write which better fits students, parents, or administrators and explain why.
Play audience-purpose roulette by drawing one audience card and one purpose card, then writing a three-sentence response using two assigned techniques.
Rewrite a school announcement about attendance for students, families, and teachers, changing evidence, tone, examples, and the requested action.
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