Georgia 8.P.ST.2
Georgia Standard (Expectation Cluster)
Author, Audience, & Purpose Interpret and construct texts by developing and applying knowledge of the strategies and techniques authors use to accommodate the target audience and achieve the text’s purpose.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P)
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Expectations in This Standard
8.P.ST.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.
- 8.P.ST.2.a
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 ...
- 8.P.ST.2.b
Draw from knowledge of author, audience, and context to discern and establish a clear point of view or unique perspective when interpreting and constructing tex...
- 8.P.ST.2.c
Draw from knowledge of how authors consider context and audience to determine which information and ideas to highlight, which text design is most accessible, wh...
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify who a text is meant for and what the author wants that audience to think, feel, or do. They explain how tone, evidence, examples, organization, and word choice support that goal. They also use those choices in their own writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can infer the intended audience and purpose using clear evidence from the text. The student can explain how tone, details, evidence, and structure shape the audience’s response. The student can revise one message for different audiences or goals.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often confuse the topic with the author’s purpose or assume the audience is everyone. They may name the tone without explaining its effect. In their own writing, they may change vocabulary but keep unsuitable evidence, details, or organization.
How to Assess It
- Give students a school announcement. Ask them to identify its audience and purpose, explain one effective author choice, and rewrite one sentence for parents instead of students.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups three versions of a phone-policy message; have them sort by audience, then highlight choices that reveal each audience and purpose.
Ask students to explain how a principal should describe the same schedule change to students, families, and staff.
Play Audience Switch: students draw audience and purpose cards, then revise a two-sentence message to match both.
Compare a restaurant’s social media post with its health inspection notice, then list how language, details, and format fit each audience.
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