Georgia 7.T.C.1

7.T.C.1 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 7.T.C.1.a

  Analyze the development of multiple purposes within a single text and how those purposes target specific audiences. (I)

• 7.T.C.1.b

  Use text mode features to aid comprehension and analysis of a variety of disciplinary texts and their related contexts. (I)

• 7.T.C.1.c

  Construct multimodal texts and/or presentations for a specific purpose and audience, using multiple, clearly identifiable features of incorporated modes. (C)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students determine why a text was created and who it is meant to reach. They analyze how the writer’s tone, details, language, and format fit that goal and audience.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students accurately identify the intended audience and the writer’s purpose. They explain how specific choices in tone, details, language, and format serve that audience and purpose.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat purpose as the topic instead of the writer’s goal. They may name a broad audience, such as “everyone,” without using evidence from the text.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a public service announcement and ask: Who is the audience, what is the purpose, and which two choices reveal both?

1. 01

   Place an advertisement, news article, and instruction sheet at stations, then have students label clues about each text’s purpose and audience.

2. 02

   Ask students to explain how a school announcement would change if written for first graders, parents, or the school board.

3. 03

   Play Audience Switch, where students rewrite one sentence for an audience card and classmates guess the intended readers.

4. 04

   Compare two product websites aimed at different age groups, then list how images, word choice, and claims change for each audience.

• 6.T.C.1

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.

• 9.T.C.1

  Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

• 12.T.C.1

  Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

• 8.T.C.1

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.