Georgia 7.P.ST.2.a
The Standard
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 extent to which those texts achieve those purposes. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Situating Texts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students determine who created a text, who it targets, what situation shaped it, and what it aims to accomplish. They apply those choices when writing and judge effectiveness using specific evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately identify the likely author, audience, context, and purpose using details from the text. They shape their own language for a chosen audience and explain whether a text achieves its purpose.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often confuse a text’s topic with its purpose. They may assume the audience is everyone or judge success by whether they agree with the message.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short school announcement. Ask them to name its audience and purpose, cite one effective choice, then rewrite one sentence for parents.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have groups sort printed advertisements, letters, and announcements by audience and purpose, then label the clues that guided each choice.
Ask students to explain how a principal’s message about attendance should differ when written for students, parents, or teachers.
Play Purpose Detective with short text cards, awarding points for identifying purpose and citing the strongest supporting clue.
Compare two local event flyers, then write which one would attract more middle school students and explain why.
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